University of Florida Research Foundation Inc

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Abdelsalam Helal

Edwin Alcides Hernandez-Mondragon

Hicham Mahmoud El Zabadani

William Mann

Carlos M Giraldo

Ahmad Hassan El Kouche

Steven Lee Pickles

Jeffrey Craig King

James A Russo

Raja Bose

Steve Vander Ploeg

Youssef Omar Kaddoura

A system includes a hardware platform, at least one driver, a plurality of devices connected to the hardware platform, a middleware interface, and a plurality of software services. Each of the plurality of devices is selected from the group consisting of sensors and actuators. The plurality of software services is generated by the at least one driver, wherein a software service associates with a device, and wherein each of the software services complies with the middleware interface. A method for interfacing a plurality of devices to a hardware platform includes communicably connecting each of the plurality of devices to the hardware platform, converting each of the plurality of devices into a programmable software service using a driver, and programming each of the software services to comply with a middleware interface.

Modular platform enabling heterogeneous devices, sensors and actuators to integrate automatically into heterogeneous networks

A system for communication between a mobile node and a communications network is provided for use with a communications network having one or more communications network nodes that define a foreign agents and that communicate with the mobile node in a predefined region. The system includes a ghost-foreign agent that advertises a foreign agent so that the mobile node is aware of the foreign agent when the mobile node is located outside the predefined region. The system further includes a ghost-mobile node that signals the foreign agent in response to the foreign agent advertising and based upon a predicted future state of the mobile node.

System, apparatus, and methods for proactive allocation of wireless communication resources

A method of task and memory assistance using a mobile communication device can include storing a profile of a user and determining a task to be performed by the user based on the user profile. The method can also include notifying the mobile communication device of the task. The method can further include providing sensory indicators in an increasing order of intervention until an acknowledgement is received from user, or for a predetermined number of notifications.

Daily task and memory assistance using a mobile device

A portable communication device () can serve as a multimedia controller and can include a transceiver having wireless access to a client computer () coupled to a multimedia device (, and). The multimedia controller can also include a display () coupled to the transceiver (), and a processor () coupled to the display and the transceiver. The processor can be programmed to send instructions to the client computer to perform at least one function among retrieving status information regarding the multimedia device, retrieving a program channel guide, controlling a recording function, selecting a program channel for display at the multimedia controller or selecting content from the client computer or a server coupled thereto for display at the multimedia controller. The processor can also be programmed to receive status information or content in response to sending instructions and to display the status information or content.

Multimedia controller

A system for emulating mobile network communications can include one or more wireless nodes configured to variably adjust signal reception sensitivity and signal transmission strength; at least one mobile node configured to wirelessly communicate with selected ones of the wireless nodes; and a network emulator communicatively linked to each wireless node. The network emulator can replicate attributes of a wired communications network. The system also can include a controller communicatively linked with the wireless nodes and configured to control signal reception sensitivity and signal transmission strength of each said wireless node, as well as a home agent configured to interact with at least one mobile node via selected ones of the wireless nodes.

Rapid mobility network emulator method and system

The present invention provides a device, a method, and a machine readable storage for managing a material substance program. The device can include a portable computing device having mobile telephony capabilities and a portable computing device having mobile telephony capabilities; and a wireless identification device communicably coupled to the portable computing device for identifying materials. The method for managing a material substance program can include scanning a material source to identify a material identifier, sending the material identifier to a proxy server, receiving material information from the proxy server, and displaying material information on a portable computing device having mobile telephony capabilities.

Portable device medical assistant

A method of remote surveillance and assisted care using a mobile communication device can include determining a location of a user. The method can also include adjusting at least one camera according to the location, and capturing an image of an area around the location. Further, the method can include transmitting the image to a remote information processing system.

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Abdelsalam Helal