Patent ID: 9173053
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: H04B,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wearable computing device designed to be worn by a user, comprising: a nearby device sensing module configured to sense presence of one or more electronic devices near the wearable computing device that are within a spatial pod surrounding the wearable computing device, the spatial pod surrounding the wearable computing device being a spatial volume that includes the wearable computing device and being enclosed by an enveloping boundary, where low-power wireless signals generated by the wearable computing device being discernible over background noise within the enveloping boundary and not discernible over background noise outside the enveloping boundary; a functionally designed device ascertaining module configured to ascertain which of the one or more electronic devices that were sensed as being within the spatial pod of the wearable computing device are at least designed to provide one or more specific functionalities that are being sought by the wearable computing device; and a functionality obtaining module configured to obtain one or more specific functionalities that are available through at least one electronic device that was sensed by the nearby device sensing module as being within the spatial pod of the wearable computing device and that was ascertained by the functionally designed device ascertaining module as providing the one or more specific functionalities.