Systems and methods for providing long-range network services to short-range wireless devices
AssigneeThirdwayv, Inc.
InventorsBola Malek, Faisal AlToukhy
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Abstract
Systems and methods relating to providing long-range network service to short-range wireless devices are disclosed. The system includes a short-range wireless device, a remote server, and a long-range wireless device for establishing a data path between the short-range wireless device and the remote server. The system performs a described method by using the short-range wireless device to alternate the transmission and concealment of an incitation signal so as to allow the long-range wireless device to establish and maintain the data path without any intervention, supervision, or inputs from a human user.
Claims20
A short-range wireless device comprising:
- a memory configured to store a subscription identifier used to cause a long-range wireless device that is subscribed to establish a data path between a server and the short-range wireless device;
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- a processor circuitry coupled with the memory, and configured to:
- generate an incitation signal based on the subscription identifier, the incitation signal identifying a subscription zone of the short-range wireless device,
- direct a short-range transceiver to transmit the incitation signal to the long-range wireless device, during a notification period, to cause the long-range wireless device to establish the data path between the server and the short-range wireless device, and
- conceal the incitation signal, from the long-range wireless device and during a reset period, to cause a logical exit of the long-range wireless device from the subscription zone while the long-range wireless device is physically within the subscription zone of the short-range wireless device, the reset period being distinctive from and alternating with the notification period.
A nontransitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions to cause a short-range wireless device to perform operations comprising:
- retrieving a subscription identifier that is used to cause a long-range wireless device that is subscribed to establish a data path between a server and the short-range wireless device;
- generating an incitation signal that identifies a subscription zone based on the subscription identifier;
- transmitting the incitation signal to the long-range wireless device, during a notification period, to cause the subscribed long-range wireless device to establish the data path between the server and the short-range wireless device;
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- halting the incitation signal, from the long-range wireless device and during a reset period, to cause a logical exit of the long-range wireless device from the subscription zone while the long-range wireless device is physically within the subscription zone of the short-range wireless device, the reset period being distinctive from and alternating with the notification period to periodically renounce the subscription zone.
A nontransitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions to cause a long-range wireless device to perform operations for establishing a data path between a server and the short-range wireless device, the operations comprising:
- receiving an incitation signal that identifies a subscription zone via a short-range transceiver of the long-range wireless device that is located within the subscription zone and subscribed to establish the data path between the server and the short-range wireless device;
- retrieving an identifier from the incitation signal;
- comparing the retrieved identifier against a subscription registry associated with the short-range wireless device;
- autonomously communicating with the short-range wireless device via the short-range transceiver if and only if the subscription registry includes a subscription identifier matching with the retrieved identifier;
- logically entering, during a notification period, the subscription zone to establish the data path between the server and the short-range wireless device;
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- logically exiting the subscription zone, during a reset period and while the long-range wireless device is physically within the subscription zone of the short-range wireless device, to prevent the long range wireless device from expiring the subscription zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.