The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2003
Jian Huang, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Lance E. Hester, Sunrise, FL (US);
Yan Huang, Weston, FL (US);
Spyros Kyperountas, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Feng Niu, Weston, FL (US);
Qicai Shi, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Jian Huang, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Lance E. Hester, Sunrise, FL (US);
Yan Huang, Weston, FL (US);
Spyros Kyperountas, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Feng Niu, Weston, FL (US);
Qicai Shi, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method for peer-to-peer ranging and discovery of a rigid body existing in a scatternet having piconets and nodes includes the steps of defining a node () in a piconet () to be a piconet controller (PNC) having controller functions, locating a rigid body seed including the node (), and discovering a rigid body by sequentially downloading controller functions of the piconet controller () to at least one border node. Also provided is a communications node including a receiver for receiving communications from other communications nodes in a communications range (R), a transmitter for sending communications to other communications nodes in the communications range (R), a memory storing at least ranging information and a unique identification for describing the node, and a processor connected to the receiver, to the transmitter, and to the memory, the processor being programmed to carry out the method according to the present invention.