Patent ID: 9167407
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computationally-implemented method, comprising: determining presence of one or more external linking devices within communication range of a wearable computing device designed to be worn by a person, the communication range being a spatial volume that includes the wearable computing device and being externally defined by an enveloping boundary, where low-power signals transmitted by the wearable computing device being discernible over background noise within the enveloping boundary and not discernible over background noise outside the enveloping boundary, the determining being based, at least in part, on one or more signals transmitted by the one or more external linking devices and received by the wearable computing device, and the one or more external linking devices designed to communicate beyond the communication range of the wearable computing device; and directing the wearable computing device to communicate beyond the communication range via at least one of the one or more external linking devices that were determined to be within the communication range of the wearable computing device.