Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100125878 | EMBEDDED WIRELESS ANTENNA FOR NETWORK TV - A WiFi chipset is integrated into a TV chassis as are wireless audio-video signal antennas that feed the chipset. The TV processor causes signals from home network components received through the antennas and chipset to be displayed on the TV. | 05-20-2010 |
20100153989 | SOCIAL NETWORKING AND PEER TO PEER FOR TVS - A peer-to-peer (P2P) application which can be applied to TVs. The P2P application promotes a social networking aspect by allowing devices connecting to either the home mesh network and/or Internet to share contents and create common-interest channels. The P2P application does not require support from network infrastructure (e.g., no central servers), and consequently is extremely cost-effective and easy to deploy. The distributed nature of this system allows users to join or leave the network at will. It takes advantage of the local home mesh network connectivity, or existing Internet connections. A participant that tunes into a broadcast on an Internet channel is not only downloading a video stream, but also uploading it to other participants watching the program. Data mining systems capture user preferences and create personalized Internet channels on the TV using the P2P network. | 06-17-2010 |
20100189011 | MULTI-TIER WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK WITH A SECURE NETWORK DISCOVERY PROTOCOL - An apparatus and method for a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The method may include formation of an infrastructure-less wireless home mesh networking environment comprising a collection of nodes that operate as a decentralized, ad hoc wireless network with multiple sub-networks or tiers that are responsible for different functions within the network. Each node of the multi-tier network is configured to forward data to other nodes and is assigned to a particular tier based on the node's performance capabilities. A further embodiment includes identification of a wireless home mesh network. Once identified, one or more proprietary messages may be exchanged in a secure manner to establish connections with a home electronics device as either a mobile node or a stationary node of the home network. A home electronics device may wirelessly communicate to route data within one or more nodes of the wireless home mesh network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-29-2010 |
20100189029 | DISTRIBUTED IP ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT PROTOCOL FOR A MULTI-HOP WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK WITH COLLISION DETECTION - An apparatus and method for a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The method may include formation of a wireless home networking environment comprising a collection of nodes that operate as a decentralized, wireless network with multiple sub-networks or tiers that are responsible for different functions within the network. Each node of the multi-tier network is configured to forward data to other nodes and is assigned to a particular tier based on the node's performance capabilities. The method may include the automatic establishment of a unique Internet protocol (IP) address within a multi-hop wireless home mesh network with the ability to do automatic collision detection and correction. Once established as either a mobile node or a stationary node of the wireless home mesh network, a new node (the home electronics device) may wirelessly communicate with one or more existing nodes of the wireless home mesh network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191968 | AUTHENTICATION FOR A MULTI-TIER WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK - An apparatus and method for a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The method may include authentication of a node within a wireless home networking environment after discovering a wireless home mesh network. The authentication comprises (1) transmitting a first message, the first message including (i) an encrypted pass-phrase being a pass-phrase encrypted with a public key of the node of the wireless home mesh network, (ii) a checksum of the encrypted pass-phrase, (iii) a public key of the wireless node, and (iv) a checksum of the public key of the wireless node, and (2) receiving a second message, the second message including a code to indicate whether the wireless node has been successfully authenticated along with the challenge text verification process to ensure the message was not tampered or sent by another node. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-29-2010 |
20100202345 | WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK BRIDGING ADAPTOR - A network bridging adaptor and method for enabling nodes to access a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The network bridging adaptor is adapted to operate in an ad hoc network having access restricted to only wireless nodes that are provided from a common entity. According to one embodiment of the invention, the network bridging adaptor comprises a housing; one or more ports positioned along a side of the housing to receive data from an electronic device; a first radio logic unit contained within the housing and adapted to transmit and receive messages in order to detect a presence of the ad hoc network; and a second radio logic unit contained within the housing and adapted to operate as an access point by establishing communications with nodes that are provided by an entity different than the common entity. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-12-2010 |
20100232317 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK WITH NETWORK TOPOLOGY VISUALIZER - An apparatus and method for a wireless home mesh network with a network topology visualizer is described. In one embodiment, the method may include displaying the network topology of a wireless home mesh network. The mobile nodes and stationary nodes of the wireless home mesh network may wirelessly communicate to share topology information regarding the wireless home mesh network. The topology information may include local connectivity information of a node, such as the direct neighbors of the node and the neighbors' neighbor information. In one embodiment, the local connectivity information is combined with the received node information to form an interactive global topology map of the wireless home mesh network to display for a user. In another embodiment, the combined topology information may be stored for offline processing. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232354 | NODE QUERY IN AD HOC HOME MESH NETWORK - An embodiment is a technique to collect network and device information. A request for local information is responded to. The request is sent by a remote node in an ad hoc home mesh network. A first node listed in a local route table is queried for node information of the first node. Querying is expanded to a second node in the ad hoc home mesh network using the node information. The second node is a neighbor of the first node. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232369 | MULTI-CHANNEL SINGLE RADIO COMMUNICATION IN HOME MESH NETWORK - An embodiment is a technique to use a single radio for multi-channel wireless communication. A local device having a local channel table operates on a common channel in a multi-channel wireless network having a plurality of network devices to perform management, control, and discovery functions using a single radio. A data session channel is negotiated with a remote device having a remote channel table upon an initiation of a communication session using the local and remote channel tables on the common channel. Data packets are exchanged with the remote device using the data session channel in a data transmission mode. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232370 | QUALITY OF SERVICE TRAFFIC RECOGNITION AND PACKET CLASSIFICATION HOME MESH NETWORK - An embodiment is a technique to perform network-based traffic recognition and packet classification. A port identifier in a transport layer header of a packet having a packet type associated with a priority level is extracted. The packet is transmitted from or to an application according to a network protocol in a multi-hop mesh network having a local node and a remote node. The packet is classified into the packet type using one of a pre-defined port list, a dynamic port table, and an application header of the application. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232371 | QUALITY OF SERVICE SERVICE SCHEDULING FOR HOME MESH NETWORK - An embodiment is a technique to perform packet scheduling for QoS. A plurality of buffers is visited in a variable round robin manner. The buffers store packets having packet types associated with priority levels and having buffer types according to the packet types. The packets are generated for transmission from an application according to a network protocol in a multi-hop mesh network having a local node and a remote node. The buffers are dequeued according to the buffer types and using an amount dynamically weighted by the priority levels associated with the buffer types. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232396 | QUALITY OF SERVICE ARCHITECTURE FOR HOME MESH NETWORK - An embodiment is a technique to perform QoS. An interface between an upper layer and a lower layer in a multi-hop mesh network receives and transmits packets from and to a local node and a remote node. A classifier classifies the received packets into a plurality of packet types having different priority levels. A queue manager manages a plurality of buffers organized according to the packet types. The plurality of buffers stores the classified packets based on the packet types. A scheduler schedules distributing the packets from the plurality of buffers based on the priority levels according to a scheduling policy. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232400 | VIRTUALIZING SINGLE RADIO FOR MULTIPLE WIRELESS INTERFACES IN HOME MESH NETWORK - An embodiment is a technique to virtualize a single physical radio for multiple wireless interfaces. A physical wireless network interface is configured into a first virtual access point (VAP) and a second VAP on a device using a single radio transceiver in a home mesh network. The first and second VAPs operate on first and second channels corresponding to first and second modes, respectively, in a time division multiple access (TDMA) mode. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232447 | QUALITY OF SERVICE QUEUE MANAGEMENT IN HOME MESH NETWORK - An embodiment is a technique to perform queue management. A packet is received from an upper layer or a classifier in a multi-hop mesh network. The packet has a packet type classified by the classifier. The received packet is enqueued into one of a plurality of buffers organized according to the packet type. | 09-16-2010 |
20100238838 | MULTI-TIER WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK WITH A SECURE NETWORK DISCOVERY PROTOCOL - An apparatus and method for a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The method may include formation of an infrastructure-less wireless home mesh networking environment comprising a collection of nodes that operate as a decentralized, ad hoc wireless network with multiple sub-networks or tiers that are responsible for different functions within the network. Each node of the multi-tier network is configured to forward data to other nodes and is assigned to a particular tier based on the node's performance capabilities. A further embodiment includes identification of a wireless home mesh network. Once identified, one or more proprietary messages may be exchanged in a secure manner to establish connections with a home electronics device as either a mobile node or a stationary node of the home network. A home electronics device may wirelessly communicate to route data within one or more nodes of the wireless home mesh network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-23-2010 |
20110032423 | ADAPTIVE USER PROFILING FOR TV-CENTRIC HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM - A TV seamlessly connects to and controls home automation equipment such as lighting, audio/video control, climate control, etc. The TV provides users with a friendly UI to control the equipment, and furthermore the TV adapts to observed user behavior to automatically establish and change settings based thereon. In addition, based on the content watched (or mode selection) on the TV, the settings of surrounding lighting, temperature and other controlled appliance would be changed by the TV. | 02-10-2011 |
20110032842 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEAMLESS ROAMING THROUGH THE USE OF ROUTING UPDATE MESSAGES - According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing seamless roaming of a wireless node of a plurality of nodes forming a wireless network comprises detecting, recovering and transmitting operations. The detecting operation involves detecting receipt of a Disassociation message from the wireless node by a first node of the plurality of nodes. The wireless node is roaming and seeking to establish a new communication with a second node of the plurality of nodes. The recovering operation involves addressing information from the Disassociation message by the first node, where the addressing information identifies the second node of the plurality of nodes. The transmitting operation involves transmitting a Route Update message to at least the second node of the plurality of nodes. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-10-2011 |
20110032883 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROACTIVELY RE-ASSESSING THE AVAILABILITY AND QUALITY OF SURROUNDING CHANNELS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATION IN WIRELESS MESH NODES - An embodiment of the invention involves a method for selecting an infrastructure mode wireless channel for a tier-2 wireless node of a plurality of wireless nodes forming a wireless mesh network. The method comprises a first operation of receiving information from at least one neighboring node. Then, the first wireless node determines if a collision has occurred with the at least one neighboring node, where the collision is an overlapping of wireless channels selected by the first node and the at least one neighboring node. If a collision has occurred, the first wireless node compares its network degree, iterative count, and MAC address (progressively in that order) with that of its neighboring node to determine which of the first wireless node or the at least one neighboring node is responsible for re-selecting a different wireless channel from a set of non-overlapping wireless channels that are available to the wireless mesh network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-10-2011 |
20110032913 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AP SELECTION AND SIGNAL QUALITY - An embodiment of the invention involves a method for selecting and maintaining wireless communications for wireless mesh networks between tier-2 and tier-3 nodes. The method comprises a first operation of receiving channel information from a first wireless node operating as an access point. The channel information includes each channel number used by one or more wireless nodes that are detected by the first wireless node to be operating within a signal coverage area of the first wireless node. Then, an active scan is conducted on a frequency spectrum for wireless signals based on the channel information. Such scanning is accomplished by initially scanning frequencies of each channel number used by the one or more wireless nodes. After the scanning, a determination is made whether to (i) maintain wireless communications with the first wireless node or (ii) establish new wireless communications with a new wireless node (AP). Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-10-2011 |
20110064072 | Scalable Media Access Control for Multi-Hop High Bandwidth Communications - A scalable medium access control (“MAC”) module is provided that avoids conflict resource reservation so that network performance does not degrade as the number of hops or nodes in a wireless network increases. The MAC also provides different access schemes for traffic with different quality of service (“QoS”) requirements such that QoS is guaranteed and network resources are efficiently utilized. Furthermore, the resource allocation scheme determines the routing path as resources is allocated for data traffice, thereby achieving more robust layer-2 routing at the MAC layer. Finally, the scalable MAC is compliant with both WiMedia MAC and IEEE 802.15.3 MAC. | 03-17-2011 |
20110072478 | BANDWIDTH REPORTING FOR TELEVISIONS - Techniques for reporting bandwidth in televisions include displaying bandwidth information for receiving one or more instances of the content and receiving a selection of a given instance of the content in response to the displayed bandwidth information. In addition, the techniques include receiving bandwidth usage history for one or more networks and displaying the bandwidth usage history. | 03-24-2011 |
20110099263 | Automated social networking television profile configuration and processing - Content selected by a user of a web access television (TV) device is monitored via a profile controller associated with the web access TV device. Social network aspects of a web access TV user profile are automatically configured based upon the monitored content selected by the user. Social networking opportunities for the user are managed via the web access TV user profile. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 04-28-2011 |
20110109715 | Automated wireless three-dimensional (3D) video conferencing via a tunerless television device - Automated wireless three-dimensional (3D) video conferencing is provided using a tunerless television device. A 3D video conference is automatically established with a wireless device capable of 3D video conferencing using a wireless communication interface of the tunerless television device. A first and a second two-dimensional (2D) video stream are received, using a camera interface module, from a first and a second video camera associated with the tunerless television device. A merged 3D video stream is created from the first 2D video stream and the second 2D video stream using a 3D video offload processing module operatively coupled to the camera interface module. The merged 3D video stream is sent to the wireless device using the wireless communication interface. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113438 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION OF SPECIFIC INTEREST TO A USER ON A TELEVISION - A system and method of displaying information of specific interest to a user includes: rendering content on a television for a user and displaying first information on the television about the content, in response to a request from the user. In response to an additional request from the user, second information is displayed on the television about the first information, wherein the second information is acquired from a real time server conducted search. Purchase information is displayed on the television for products associated with the second information. In response to the user selecting the purchase information, a purchase transaction is initiated on the television. In some embodiments, a server records the purchase transactions and delivers targeted advertising to the television. | 05-12-2011 |
20110211565 | MULTI-TIER WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK WITH A SECURE NETWORK DISCOVERY PROTOCOL - An apparatus, system and method for a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The method may include formation of an infrastructure-less wireless home mesh networking environment comprising a collection of nodes that operate as a decentralized, ad hoc wireless network with multiple sub-networks or tiers that are responsible for different functions within the network. Each node of the multi-tier network is configured to forward data to other nodes and is assigned to a particular tier based on the node's performance capabilities. A further embodiment includes identification of a wireless home mesh network. Once identified, one or more proprietary messages may be exchanged in a secure manner to establish connections with a home electronics device as either a mobile node or a stationary node of the home network. A home electronics device may wirelessly communicate to route data within one or more nodes of the wireless home mesh network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211566 | MULTI-TIER WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK WITH A SECURE NETWORK DISCOVERY PROTOCOL - An apparatus and method for a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The method may include formation of an infrastructure-less wireless home mesh networking environment comprising a collection of nodes that operate as a decentralized, ad hoc wireless network with multiple sub-networks or tiers that are responsible for different functions within the network. Each node of the multi-tier network is configured to forward data to other nodes and is assigned to a particular tier based on the node's performance capabilities. A further embodiment includes identification of a wireless home mesh network. Once identified, one or more proprietary messages may be exchanged in a secure manner to establish connections with a home electronics device as either a mobile node or a stationary node of the home network. A home electronics device may wirelessly communicate to route data within one or more nodes of the wireless home mesh network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-01-2011 |
20110280156 | Method and Apparatus for a Wireless Home Mesh Network with Network Topology Visualizer - An apparatus and method for a wireless home mesh network with a network topology visualizer is described. In one embodiment, the method may include collecting node topology information by a node of a wireless home mesh network, where the node topology information includes a list of neighbor nodes for the node. Thereafter, a communication socket is opened, and a node topology packet, including a lust of neighbor nodes, is transmitted in order to produce a global network topology map. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 11-17-2011 |
20120117118 | SEARCH AND DEEP LINKING IN INTERNET-ENABLED TV - An Internet-enabled TV that provides virtual channels to online services that source content responds to a viewer search query by passing the query only to services designated as “searchable” and that thus possess a search application programming interface (API) to return links directly to the content and not just to the hosting services. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117184 | Accessing Android Media Resources from Sony Dash - A process of accessing media resources on Android capable wireless devices running an i-jetty HTTP server from a personal Internet interface device such as the Sony Dash. Activating a servlet on the Android device to transmit an IP address to a Dash capable device and establishing a wireless communication connection from the Dash device to the Android device using the IP address. Operating a service on the Dash device that accesses multimedia resources on the Android device where the Android device dynamically generates multimedia metadata for extraction and display on the Dash device. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 05-10-2012 |
20120136934 | DEVICE, SERVER, AND METHOD FOR SHARING DEEP LINKS OVER SOCIAL NETWORK - An audio video display device (AVDD) includes a display and a processor controlling the display to present an Internet-sourced program. Additionally, the processor causes the display to present a “share” selector element selectable by a user to cause a link associated with the program to automatically be sent to a friend device over a social networking site. | 05-31-2012 |
20120137329 | ENHANCED INFORMATION ON MOBILE DEVICE FOR VIEWED PROGRAM AND CONTROL OF INTERNET TV DEVICE USING MOBILE DEVICE - The user of an Internet TV device can control the Internet TV device using a mobile device such as a smart phone. The smart phone also obtains program information from the Internet TV device and sends the information to a server as a search term, presenting supplemental program information received from the server on the display of the mobile device so that a person can browse the supplemental information without disturbing viewers of the Internet TV device. The mobile device can also grab a link related to the program from the Internet TV device and use that link as a recommendation to friends on social networking sites. | 05-31-2012 |
20120200391 | METHOD TO IDENTIFY USER WITH SECURITY - The present invention is directed toward a system and method for identifying and authenticating a user using one or more types of pattern information. Specifically, the present invention provides a convenient user identification and authentication method using pattern information from one or more sources including (1) an audio-input device, (2) an optical-input device and/or (3) an orientation sensing device. | 08-09-2012 |
20120204116 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A MULTI-USER SMART DISPLAY FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS SESSIONS - A method and apparatus are provided for establishing a multi-user session having a plurality of users according to a general profile, the general profile comprising at least a desktop appearance specific to the multi-user session, receiving a session request from a first user of the plurality of users, retrieving a user profile for the first user, detecting a window position for the session request and generating a first user session for the first user at the window position based on the user profile, the user profile comprising at least a desktop appearance specific to the first user wherein the first user session runs simultaneously with the multi-user session and simultaneously displaying the multi-user session and the first user session, the first user session being displayed at a location corresponding to the detected window position. | 08-09-2012 |
20120204117 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A MULTI-USER SMART DISPLAY FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS SESSIONS - A method and apparatus are provided for establishing a multi-user session having a plurality of users according to a general profile, the general profile comprising at least a desktop appearance specific to the multi-user session, receiving a session request from a first user of the plurality of users, retrieving a user profile for the first user, detecting a window position for the session request and generating a first user session for the first user at the window position based on the user profile, the user profile comprising at least a desktop appearance specific to the first user wherein the first user session runs simultaneously with the multi-user session and simultaneously displaying the multi-user session and the first user session, the first user session being displayed at a location corresponding to the detected window position. | 08-09-2012 |
20120297400 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INVOKING AN APPLICATION IN RESPONSE TO A TRIGGER EVENT - A method for invoking a software application comprising: executing a first application on a user device; detecting a trigger event on the user device, the trigger event is non-specific and external to the first application and a second application; invoking the second application in response to the trigger event; sending metadata from the first application to the second application; and performing an action in the second application based at least partially on the metadata received from the first application, wherein, the first application and the second application are not operating system processes, and the second application is separate and independent from the first application. | 11-22-2012 |
20130006625 | EXTENDED VIDEOLENS MEDIA ENGINE FOR AUDIO RECOGNITION - A system, method, and computer program product for automatically analyzing multimedia data audio content are disclosed. Embodiments receive multimedia data, detect portions having specified audio features, and output a corresponding subset of the multimedia data and generated metadata. Audio content features including voices, non-voice sounds, and closed captioning, from downloaded or streaming movies or video clips are identified as a human probably would do, but in essentially real time. Particular speakers and the most meaningful content sounds and words and corresponding time-stamps are recognized via database comparison, and may be presented in order of match probability. Embodiments responsively pre-fetch related data, recognize locations, and provide related advertisements. The content features may be also sent to search engines so that further related content may be identified. User feedback and verification may improve the embodiments over time. | 01-03-2013 |
20130024927 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ESTABLISHING NEW SESSION WITH INTERACTIVE SERVICE AFTER PREVIOUS SESSION EXPIRATION - A system includes a video display and a processor controlling the display. The processor accesses computer readable instructions to cause the processor to access a server associated with the service over a network responsive to viewer selection of a service. The processor then, without any viewer interaction, executes authentication with the server. Thereafter, responsive to successful authentication, the processor provides the service to a viewer at least in part by presenting an image associated with the service on the display. Responsive to the server indicating that a session for which the authentication is valid is expired, the processor automatically and without viewer input executes authentication with the server to establish a new session. | 01-24-2013 |
20130070153 | ONSCREEN REMOTE CONTROL PRESENTED BY AUDIO VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE SUCH AS TV TO CONTROL SOURCE OF HDMI CONTENT - An audio video display device (AVDD) includes a processor and a touch screen video display. The AVDD also includes a computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by the processor to present at least one image of a remote control (RC) on the display. Accordingly, responsive to a first user command, the processor presents an image of a full RC on the display. Responsive to a second user command, the processor presents an image of a direction-only RC on the display that permits a user only to enter direction commands and an “enter” command. | 03-21-2013 |
20130085921 | HOME ENERGY COLLABORATIVE MESH PLATFORM - A method to share, barter, lend, trade, rent and give energy through technology and peer communities. An online service which allows users to globally monitor, manage and redistribute energy (electricity) at the individual house level. This method of collaborative consumption gives members in the organized communities the benefit of ownership with reduced personal burden and costs. The fundamental value is that it provides an alternative to traditional forms of purchasing and ownership. | 04-04-2013 |
20130136033 | ONE-CLICK CONNECT/DISCONNECT FEATURE FOR WIRELESS DEVICES FORMING A MESH NETWORK - According to one embodiment of the invention, a system, electronic device and method are described for creating, connecting or disconnecting from a mesh network. The method comprises a first operation of detecting a duration of time (or number of press) that a mesh networking button of a wireless device has been actuated. Thereafter, in response to actuation of the mesh networking button up to a first predetermined duration (or presses), a first mesh network is created without additional input of information by a user. Optionally, in response to actuation of the mesh networking button for at least a second predetermined duration, where the second predetermined duration being longer (or different number of presses) in time than the first predetermined duration (or button presses), the electronic device issues a request to join a second mesh network detecting previously by the electronic device. | 05-30-2013 |
20130283314 | ENHANCED INFORMATION ON MOBILE DEVICE FOR VIEWED PROGRAM AND CONTROL OF INTERNET TV DEVICE USING MOBILE DEVICE - The user of an Internet TV device can control the Internet TV device using a mobile device such as a smart phone. The smart phone also obtains program information from the Internet TV device and sends the information to a server as a search term, presenting supplemental program information received from the server on the display of the mobile device so that a person can browse the supplemental information without disturbing viewers of the Internet TV device. The mobile device can also grab a link related to the program from the Internet TV device and use that link as a recommendation to friends on social networking sites. | 10-24-2013 |
20130322294 | Method and Apparatus for a Wireless Home Mesh Network with Network Topology Visualizer - An apparatus and method for a wireless home mesh network with a network topology visualizer is described. In one embodiment, the method may include collecting node topology information by a node of a wireless home mesh network, where the node topology information includes a list of neighbor nodes for the node. Thereafter, a communication socket is opened, and a node topology packet, including a lust of neighbor nodes, is transmitted in order to produce a global network topology map. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-05-2013 |
20140092766 | SCALABLE MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL FOR MULTI-HOP HIGH BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATIONS - A scalable medium access control (“MAC”) module is provided that avoids conflict resource reservation so that network performance does not degrade as the number of hops or nodes in a wireless network increases. The MAC also provides different access schemes for traffic with different quality of service (“QoS”) requirements such that QoS is guaranteed and network resources are efficiently utilized. Furthermore, the resource allocation scheme determines the routing path as resources is allocated for data traffice, thereby achieving more robust layer-2 routing at the MAC layer. Finally, the scalable MAC is compliant with both WiMedia MAC and IEEE 802.15.3 MAC. | 04-03-2014 |
20140122893 | Multi-Tier Wireless Home Mesh Network with a Secure Network Discovery Protocol - An apparatus, system and method for a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The method may include formation of an infrastructure-less wireless home mesh networking environment comprising a collection of nodes that operate as a decentralized, ad hoc wireless network with multiple sub-networks or tiers that are responsible for different functions within the network. Each node of the multi-tier network is configured to forward data to other nodes and is assigned to a particular tier based on the node's performance capabilities. A further embodiment includes identification of a wireless home mesh network. Once identified, one or more proprietary messages may be exchanged in a secure manner to establish connections with a home electronics device as either a mobile node or a stationary node of the home network. A home electronics device may wirelessly communicate to route data within one or more nodes of the wireless home mesh network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 05-01-2014 |
20140169355 | MULTI-TIER WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK WITH A SECURE NETWORK DISCOVERY PROTOCOL - An apparatus and method for a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The method may include formation of an infrastructure-less wireless home mesh networking environment comprising a collection of nodes that operate as a decentralized, ad hoc wireless network with multiple sub-networks or tiers that are responsible for different functions within the network. Each node of the multi-tier network is configured to forward data to other nodes and is assigned to a particular tier based on the node's performance capabilities. A further embodiment includes identification of a wireless home mesh network. Once identified, one or more proprietary messages may be exchanged in a secure manner to establish connections with a home electronics device as either a mobile node or a stationary node of the home network. A home electronics device may wirelessly communicate to route data within one or more nodes of the wireless home mesh network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-19-2014 |
20140211718 | Quality of Service Traffic Recognition and Packet Classification for Home Mesh Network - An embodiment is a technique to perform network-based traffic recognition and packet classification. A port identifier in a transport layer header of a packet having a packet type associated with a priority level is extracted. The packet is transmitted from or to an application according to a network protocol in a multi-hop mesh network having a local node and a remote node. The port identifier includes a port number. The packet is classified into the packet type using the port identifier and one of a pre-defined port list, a dynamic port table, and an application header of the application. | 07-31-2014 |
20140298373 | SOCIAL NETWORKING AND PEER TO PEER FOR TVS - A peer-to-peer (P2P) application which can be applied to TVs. The P2P application promotes a social networking aspect by allowing devices connecting to either the home mesh network and/or Internet to share contents and create common-interest channels. The P2P application does not require support from network infrastructure (e.g., no central servers), and consequently is extremely cost-effective and easy to deploy. The distributed nature of this system allows users to join or leave the network at will. It takes advantage of the local home mesh network connectivity, or existing Internet connections. A participant that tunes into a broadcast on an Internet channel is not only downloading a video stream, but also uploading it to other participants watching the program. Data mining systems capture user preferences and create personalized Internet channels on the TV using the P2P network. | 10-02-2014 |
20140321325 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK WITH NETWORK TOPOLOGY VISUALIZER - An apparatus and method for a wireless home mesh network with a network topology visualizer is described. In one embodiment, the method may include collecting node topology information by a node of a wireless home mesh network, where the node topology information includes a list of neighbor nodes for the node. Thereafter, a communication socket is opened, and a node topology packet, including a lust of neighbor nodes, is transmitted in order to produce a global network topology map. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-30-2014 |