Information acquisition decision making by devices in a wireless network
US6950646B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 27, 2001 |
| Grant date | Sep 27, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 7, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M2207/18
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A mobile telephone (10), an advertiser, broadcasts an advertisement over a wireless short range piconet link to another mobile telephone (12), a consumer. The advertisement is broadcast with a predetermined set of classification tags and the consumer phone (12) has a filter set to accept only certain advertisements. When an advertisement of interest is received by the consumer phone (12) it assesses whether to obtain further details via the piconet link and the advertiser phone (10) provides then automatically via the piconet link. When the consumer wishes to reply to the advertisement they contact the advertiser phone (10), or an advertiser device, via a long range cellular link (16).
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