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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 28, 2012
Applicant:

Elwha Llc, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jesse R. Cheatham, III, Seattle, WA (US);

Matthew G. Dyor, Bellevue, WA (US);

Peter N. Glaskowsky, Carnation, WA (US);

Kimberly D. A. Hallman, Bellevue, WA (US);

Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);

Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Livermore, CA (US);

Edward K. Y. Jung, Bellevue, WA (US);

Michael F. Koenig, Bellevue, WA (US);

Robert W. Lord, Seattle, WA (US);

Richard T. Lord, Tacoma, WA (US);

Craig J. Mundie, Seattle, WA (US);

Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, WA (US);

Robert C. Petroski, Seattle, WA (US);

Desney S. Tan, Kirkland, WA (US);

Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Elwha LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/00 (2009.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G05B 19/00 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0219 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for control of transmission to a target device with communicating with one or more sensors in an ad-hoc sensor network may implement operations including, but not limited to: receiving one or more wireless signals associated with a sensing capability status of at least one sensor; wirelessly transmitting one or more sensor operation activation signals to one or more sensors according to the sensing capability status of the at least one sensor; and at least one of powering one or more sensing operations of the at least one sensor and charging one or more power storage devices of the at least one sensor via the one or more sensor operation activation signals.


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