Patent ID: 9237411
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: H04B,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A computationally-implemented method, comprising: receiving one or more signals through a directional antenna of a wearable computing device, the one or more signals having been transmitted by one or more electronic devices, the wearable computing device being a computing device designed to be worn by a user; determining that the one or more electronic devices are within a spatial pod of the wearable computing device based, at least in part, on the one or more signals received by the wearable computing device, the spatial pod of the wearable computing device being a spatial volume that includes the wearable computing device and being defined by an enveloping boundary, where low-power signals transmitted via the directional antenna being discernible over background noise within the enveloping boundary and not discernible over background noise outside the enveloping boundary; and obtaining at least access to one or more functionalities from the one or more electronic devices that were determined to be within the spatial pod of the wearable computing device, the obtaining of the at least access to the one or more functionalities via the directional antenna.