Abstract:
A method, a system, and a network include combining communications from a plurality of subscribers providing a full-duplex communication channel therebetween; detecting noise on the full-duplex communication channel above a predetermined threshold; and selectively enabling a special half-duplex mode on one or more of the plurality of subscribers responsive to the noise, wherein the special half-duplex mode comprises a push-to-talk mode whereby a subscriber has to enable communications via push-to-talk while communicating on the full-duplex communication channel. The method, system, and network define a special half-duplex mode whereby participants are allowed to communicate via push-to-talk, but have their associated lines suppressed to remove noise from the full-duplex communication channel.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for node operation according to network-wide resource-allocation schedules. One embodiment takes the form of a method carried out by a given node within an ad-hoc wireless network, which includes a controller node for a current time period. The method includes obtaining one or more air-interface resource requests for the current time period, where each obtained resource request indicates a requesting node and a requested resource. The method further includes using a network-standard algorithm for deriving a network-wide resource-allocation schedule for the current time period based at least in part on the obtained resource requests. The method further includes verifying the derived resource-allocation schedule based at least in part on a verification value derived by the controller node from the network-wide resource-allocation schedule using a network-standard verification function. The method also includes operating according to the verified resource-allocation schedule for the current time period.
Abstract:
Smart handcuffs are provided herein as part of a personal-area-network (PAN) along with a method for operating the smart handcuffs and the PAN. During operation smart handcuffs will pair with a first PAN master device. An alarm will sound when no system identification (SSID) is detected by the handcuffs, when no SSID is detected by the handcuffs that matches SSIDs within an internal database, when the handcuffs have broken the pairing with the first PAN master device, and the handcuffs have not paired or are not pairing with a second PAN, or when the handcuffs have broken the pairing with the first PAN master device, and no update from the handcuffs has been received by the first master device that the handcuffs have paired or will pair with the second PAN.