294 results about "Personal network" patented technology

We have disclosed a modular personal network (MPN) that includes multiple devices that may be worn, carried, or used in close proximity to a user. The devices communicate wirelessly. Functions of the MPN may be modified by adding or removing components. The MPN may communicate with a personal computer. General purpose devices may include a control unit, a display, a user input, and an audio output. The MPN may provide a variety of functions, including time, communication, entertainment, organization, guidance, athletic, medical, travel, outdoors, identity, security, and military.

A user's personal computer can be turned into a personal network server for easily sharing personal digital information with other people using a wide variety of devices. There are a variety of alternative ways in which such file sharing on the user's computer can be implemented, such as with a client-side server approach, a hosted server approach, and an automated publish approach. Depending upon a variety of factors, the requested shared data may be intelligently and dynamically transformed to better fit the requesting party's needs. Programming interfaces are available to third parties that allow for access to the shared data and for providing customized instructions on what to do when transforming the data.

A system and method for observing a personal networking event which shares the position of a number of friendly participants with other participants within a group. In one form, the position of unknown participants meeting certain criteria is also displayed to a user or one or more friendly participants. The views are selectable by friendly participants on, for example, a GPS equipped cell phone, to include a view from the participant's position, zoom, pan, and tilt views, or views from another friendly location or from another geographic location, giving increased situational awareness and identification of participants. Other information can be shared among friendly participants, including social information, status and directions.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for users to search networks, both their own network and their peers' networks, all under the umbrella of a “multiple level access” security system. The present invention has been designed to optimize networking capabilities among users in a comprehensive online community. Networking among such a secured environment will allow users an opportunity to enhance their networking potential by expanding their networks to their peers' and beyond. A user registers with the online community and personally adds individuals that they know to their personal networking database. While adding these peers to the networking database, the user grants a specific level of access to each individual. This security measure is devised to discourage solicitation from other unwanted online users. The levels of access give the user an opportunity to control the amount of personal information, including contacts that they make, available to their individual peers. Based on the level of access granted by the user, the peer may or may not be able to access the users information or the user's personal databases for potential networking. The level of access granted by two individuals need not be the same for each other.

Methods and systems for allowing multiple parties to coordinate, including a computer server in communication with a network and a database, the computer server configured to run the platform and allow a vendor user to, and invite a customer user to use the platform via the network. Also, research the customer user by sending questions to the customer user and receive responses to the questions from the customer user, wherein the questions include stored platform questions, and prompt the customer user to upload personal information from a personal networked storage. In addition, send the customer user a product preferences template, receive answers to the product preferences template from the customer user via the network, and offer products to the customer user based on the received responses.

A system and method for observing a personal networking event which shares the position of a number of friendly participants with other participants within a group. In one form, the position of unknown participants meeting certain criteria is also displayed to a user or one or more friendly participants. The views are selectable by friendly participants on, for example, a GPS equipped cell phone, to include a view from the participant's position, zoom, pan, and tilt views, or views from another friendly location or from another geographic location, giving increased situational awareness and identification of participants. Other information can be shared among friendly participants, including social information, status and directions. Preferably, an orientation mechanism shows when the device is correctly pointed to a position.

We have disclosed a modular personal network (MPN) that includes multiple devices that may be worn, carried, or used in close proximity to a user. The devices communicate wirelessly. Functions of the MPN may be modified by adding or removing components. The MPN may communicate with a personal computer. General purpose devices may include a control unit, a display, a user input, and an audio output. The MPN may provide a variety of functions, including time, communication, entertainment, organization, guidance, athletic, medical, travel, outdoors, identity, security, and military.

We have disclosed a modular personal network (MPN) that includes multiple devices that may be worn, carried, or used in close proximity to a user. The devices communicate wirelessly. Functions of the MPN may be modified by adding or removing components. The MPN may communicate with a personal computer. General purpose devices may include a control unit, a display, a user input, and an audio output. The MPN may provide a variety of functions, including time, communication, entertainment, organization, guidance, athletic, medical, travel, outdoors, identity, security, and military.

A method may include sending personal network connection information from a mobile device to a guest device; sending authentication credentials from the mobile device to the guest device; receiving the authentication credentials in the personal network from the guest device; authenticating the guest device based on the authentication credentials; and granting access to the guest device to content stored in the personal network for a guest session.

In general the present invention provides for a small hand held size device that is easily kept in a pocket or purse or on a key chain. The security token will contain a microprocessor having memory function and will connect to a PC or other computing device or workstation via a USB port. Upon insertion into the open USB port of the user's remote computer, the personal network security token scans the remote computer to detect the presence of at least one or more operating applications, such as the type of anti-virus software and patch level and / or the type of operating system (OS) the remote computer is running and the patch level. Upon contacting the target network, the network will send an inquiry to the user's remote computer to determine if the personal network security token is present as well as other parameters. If the condition status of the token is “OK” then the network sends an authentication page to the user for the user to enter his or her user ID and password. If the ID and password are valid, then the user is allowed access to the network.

We have disclosed a modular personal network (MPN) that includes multiple devices that may be worn, carried, or used in close proximity to a user. The devices communicate wirelessly. Functions of the MPN may be modified by adding or removing components. The MPN may communicate with a personal computer. General purpose devices may include a control unit, a display, a user input, and an audio output. The MPN may provide a variety of functions, including time, communication, entertainment, organization, guidance, athletic, medical, travel, outdoors, identity, security, and military.

Exemplary systems and methods for sharing a personal network of a first user are provided. The exemplary method comprises receiving credentials for the personal network which are used to generate a network profile. When an indication to share the personal network is received, one or more user devices of a second user are queued to receive the network profile. The network profile is then provided to the one or more user devices to provision the one or more user devices for accessing the personal network.

The invention provides a method and a system for real-name authentication based on face recognition. According to the method, personal information of a user including identity card information is acquired by the system, the condition that a personal terminal used by the user starts a camera device is detected, the information of a facial image from video information picked up by the camera device is selected according to a preset face posture rule, the identification photo information of a corresponding identity card is retrieved from the national citizen identity information database according to the identity card information, the selected information of the facial image is matched with the retrieved identification photo information, and real-name authentication of the personal information is performed according the matching degree. According to the method and the system disclosed by the invention, the difficult problem of non-face-to-face personal network identity identification is solved to ensure that a user can quickly finish real-time authentication anytime and anywhere, and meanwhile, because the user dose not need to provide an electronic identity card, the phenomena of falsely use and embezzlement of identity cards can be effectively prevented.

We have disclosed a modular personal network (MPN) that includes multiple devices that may be worn, carried, or used in close proximity to a user. The devices communicate wirelessly. Functions of the MPN may be modified by adding or removing components. The MPN may communicate with a personal computer. General purpose devices may include a control unit, a display, a user input, and an audio output. The MPN may provide a variety of functions, including time, communication, entertainment, organization, guidance, athletic, medical, travel, outdoors, identity, security, and military.

We have disclosed a modular personal network (MPN) that includes multiple devices that may be worn, carried, or used in close proximity to a user. The devices communicate wirelessly. Functions of the MPN may be modified by adding or removing components. The MPN may communicate with a personal computer. General purpose devices may include a control unit, a display, a user input, and an audio output. The MPN may provide a variety of functions, including time, communication, entertainment, organization, guidance, athletic, medical, travel, outdoors, identity, security, and military.

A method and system for a personal network. The method and system includes plural mobile location-aware client network devices with minimal CPU processing power and memory with a thin client application that uses secure tunneling / threads to send data to / from a home server network device and / or other server network devices on a personal network. The client devices can be voice activated. The home server network device and / or other server network devices do computational services requested by the plural mobile client network devices on demand and / or pre-programmed services. The secure tunneling / threads are also used across cloud and non-cloud communications network to / from other network devices and / or other mobile client network devices via the home network servers or other server network devices.

A method and apparatus in which a device capable of near-field communication receives a service from an external network using a communication function of a device capable of accessing the external network. A personal network is formed with devices having different users, and subscriber information for each user is safely acquired and authenticated, making it possible to provide a service received from the external network to the devices included in the personal network more conveniently.

We have disclosed a modular personal network (MPN) that includes multiple devices that may be worn, carried, or used in close proximity to a user. The devices communicate wirelessly. Functions of the MPN may be modified by adding or removing components. The MPN may communicate with a personal computer. General purpose devices may include a control unit, a display, a user input, and an audio output. The MPN may provide a variety of functions, including time, communication, entertainment, organization, guidance, athletic, medical, travel, outdoors, identity, security, and military.

A method and apparatus for group owner (GO) renegotiation are provided. For example, the method and apparatus may be used for GO renegotiation in a wireless personal network (WPAN), for example, a 60-gigahertz (60 GHz) peer-to-peer (P2P) wireless network. The incumbent group owner (e.g., personal base station set (PBSS) control point (PCP)) controls the operation of the group. GO renegotiation can occur, for example, when a newly arriving device (e.g., a prospective group owner) is trying to connect to the PBSS and / or, for example, with PCP rearrangement among members of an existing group. As an example, after the formation of the group, the PCP may want to relinquish the role of being the PCP. A procedure is described for deciding among clients and the PCP which device will assume the role of group owner from the existing PCP in the event the role of group owner is to be reassigned.

Provided is an apparatus and a method for establishing a Personal Network (PN) by interconnecting a gateway device and various Consumer Electronics (CE) devices through a simple process in order to enable the CEs to receive various services. The method includes performing a physical pairing with surrounding devices by using Near Field Communication (NFC); finding a gateway device, which relays a service from the server, from among the paired devices; selecting a scheme for establishing a PN with the gateway device; and sending a request for connection with a PN according to the selected scheme to the found gateway device.

A fully user-centric mobile relation networking management of business networking, personal networking and social networking for mobile terminal device with networking services adaptively and intelligently optimized by converged wireless connections based on open wireless architecture (OWA) mobile cloud infrastructure with QoW (Quality of Wireless connection) control through OWA Operating System (OS) to enable highly secured relation networking for mobile business and personal networking users.

Information handling system networking tasks are allocated between personal and local area wireless networks according to one or more factors, such as information content or network congestion. Network communications through co-located wireless local and personal area network transceivers are managed with a task allocation module so that networking bandwidth is used more effectively. For instance, office applications communicate through a personal area network, such as an Ultrawide band network, to accomplish multimedia tasks, such as video display, VoIP communication and personal network attached storage access, without causing congestion on wider used enterprise networks, such as 802.11(b) local area networks.

A converged conferencing appliance having at least one voice port and one data port for managing multi-device conferences allowing multiple participants to concurrently connect diverse devices over public switched, mobile, IP, wireless local or wide area, personal networks, and cable or fixed wireless networks. Each of the ports can be connected to an individual, respective device and all of the ports can be configured for simultaneous operation. In addition to the voice and data ports, at least one broadband port and at least one wireless port can be provided in the appliance. A mechanism is also provided to synchronize multi-modal communications and conferences among a number of users. Participants may participate in integrated voice, data and video conferences by simultaneously connecting from one or more devices such as traditional phones, mobile phones, voice and data capable smart phones, computers, VoIP devices, wireless devices and other intelligent handheld devices.

The invention provides a method and a device for realizing controlling a wireless personal network equipment, comprising the following steps of: obtaining the current position information of a mobile positioning terminal; calculating the distance between the mobile positioning terminal and the wireless personal network equipment according to the current position information of the mobile positioning terminal and the position information of the wireless personnel network equipment; and controlling the wireless personnel equipment when the distance meeting the prearranged control condition. The method and the device utilize the positioning technology to obtain the position information, realize the automatic control on the wireless personal network equipment when meeting the prearranged control condition, thus realizing the intelligent control in true significance and meeting the development requirement of the personal area network consisting of short-distance wireless communication technology.

A system that allows indirect access of a network by TE, comprising TE device information; a personal network (PN) server; a master UE of a personal network; a TE of a personal network; and a UE B connected to a WAN which forwards data to and from TEs. Using the master UE the user sets configuration details which is the TE device information and stored at the PN Server. The TE device information contains data which is used to allow and control access of TE to the network, when the TE uses other UEs to access the network. When the TE tries to access the network through another UE B, the PN Server uses the TE device information to authenticate and control access of TE. UE B acts as a forwarding device in this sequence between TE and the PN server.

The present invention discloses a method for informing service in personal network, wherein the method comprises the following steps: obtaining state information of personal network device by a service server, determining whether the service inform is transmitted to the personal network device according to the state information of personal network device, and if the determining result is yes, transmitting service inform to the personal network device. Correspondingly, the invention also provides a device for processing service inform in personal network. The problems of unable transmission of service inform of personal network device, ineffective transmission or repeated transmission can be settled. The resource wastage and inconvenient using are effectively prevented.

The invention relates to the technical field of data management, in particular to a family tree management system and method. The family tree management system comprises a user login module, a data collecting and entering module, a system management module, a data maintenance module, a data output module, a data display module and a data retrieval module. The family tree management method comprises a corresponding method carried out on the basis of the family tree management system. By use of the family tree management system and method provided by the invention, a personal network log is integrated into a family tree system to form a rich family culture inheriting system, family member information input by a user is converted into a viewing graph so as to display the family member information in the hierarchical way of the viewing graph so as to more visually check. Compared with the prior art, the family tree management system disclosed by the invention is comprehensive in information recording and simultaneously comprises the information of each paternal line member of the family and the information of each maternal line member of the family so as to meet a requirement on truly and comprehensively recoding the family member information under a current big data environment.

A method and system of accessing content in a peer-to-peer network are described including receiving by a peer a content list including content availability from a directory service, requesting content from the directory service and downloading the requested content to a first personal network storage area associated with the requesting peer from a second personal network storage area associated with a second peer, wherein the first and second personal network storage areas are hosted by servers with an access network. A method and system for accessing content in a peer-to-peer network are also described including receiving by a directory service peer information and content availability information, posting the peer information and the content availability information, receiving a request for content from a peer and directing a personal network server having a personal network storage areas associated with peers to transfer the content from a personal network storage area associated with a second peer to a personal network storage area associated with the requesting peer.