US 9,179,497 B1Granted

Distribution of sensor data among a group of wireless communication devices

AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.

InventorsVon Karl McConnell, Lyle T. Bertz, Lyle Walter Paczkowski, Joao Carlos Osorio Gouvea Teixeira de Magalhaes

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Abstract

A wireless communication network exchanges wireless data with wireless communication devices and transfers device data indicating device locations and device status to a network server. A sensor system detects a trigger condition and responsively determines proximate wireless communication devices. The sensor system transfers indications of the trigger condition and the currently proximate wireless communication devices to the network server. The network server processes the device data, trigger condition, and proximate wireless communication devices to generate notice data indicating the trigger condition and to select at least one of the wireless communication devices for receipt of the notice data. The network server transfers the notice data to the selected wireless communication devices over the wireless communication network.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of operating a communication system to distribute notice data indicating a trigger condition among a group of wireless communication devices, the method comprising:

in a wireless communication network, exchanging wireless data with the wireless communication devices and transferring device data indicating device locations and device status for delivery to a network server system;
in a sensor system, detecting the trigger condition and responsively determining a current set of proximate ones of the wireless communication devices to the sensor system and transferring indications of the trigger condition and the current set of the proximate wireless communication devices for delivery to the network server system;
in the network server system, processing the device data, the indication of the trigger condition, and the indication of the current set of the proximate wireless communication devices to generate the notice data indicating the trigger condition and to select at least one of the wireless communication devices for receipt of the notice data;
in the network server system, transferring the notice data indicating the trigger condition for delivery to the selected at least one of the wireless communication devices over the wireless communication network;
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in the wireless communication network, wirelessly transferring the notice data indicating the trigger condition to the selected at least one of the wireless communication devices.

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A communication system to distribute notice data among a group of wireless communication devices, the communication system comprising:

a network server system;
a wireless communication network configured to exchange wireless data with the wireless communication devices and to transfer device data indicating device locations and device status for delivery to the network server system;
a sensor system configured to detect a trigger condition and responsively determine a current set of proximate ones of the wireless communication devices to the sensor system and to transfer indications of the trigger condition and the current set of the proximate wireless communication devices for delivery to the network server system;
the network server system configured to process the device data for the wireless communication devices, the indication of the trigger condition, and the indication of the current set of the proximate wireless communication devices to generate the notice data indicating the trigger condition, to select at least one of the wireless communication devices for receipt of the notice data, and to transfer the notice data for delivery to the selected at least one of the wireless communication devices over the wireless communication network;
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the wireless communication network configured to wirelessly transfer the notice data to the selected at least one of the wireless communication devices.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/215,434Filed 17 Mar 2014
Granted: 3 Nov 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04W 4/023
Services making use of location information: using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets…
H04L 67/125
Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or…:…
H04W 84/18
Network topologies: self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…