Qualcomm Incorporated

Intel Mobile Communications Gmbh

David Brenner

Sridhar Rajagopal

Matthew Brendan Shoemake

Pablo Puente

John Wurth

Paul Sisler

According to an aspect of this disclosure, a method for transferring data from a first device to a second device is described, the method comprising: writing data into a data-sharing application of an operating system of the first device; requesting a data-sharing application to select a physical layer data transmission technology; the data-sharing application selecting a physical layer data transmission technology; connecting a data-sharing of an operating system of the second device via the selected physical layer data transmission technology; and transferring the data from the data-sharing application of the first device to the data-sharing application of the second device.

Method for transferring data between a first device and a second device

The present invention provides a method for enabling side channel communication between wireless devices. In one embodiment of the invention the guard tones in wireless OFDM signals are used for side channel communication. In another embodiment of the invention, unused bits in OFDM symbols are used as side channels instead of being padded with zeros or random bits.

Virtual side channels for digital wireless communication systems

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David Brenner