Patent ID: 8023940
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for connecting an ad hoc piconet with a wide area network, the computer program product comprising a computer usable storage memory having computer-readable program code embodied in the memory, the computer-readable program code comprising: computer-readable program code that is configured to determine ad hoc piconet services that are available from the ad hoc piconet; computer-readable program code that is configured to advertise the ad hoc piconet services to the wide area network as wide area network services; computer-readable program code that is configured to map a service invocation that is received from a client in the wide area network to an ad hoc piconet protocol; computer-readable program code that is configured to invoke the service on the ad hoc piconet; computer-readable program code that is configured to receive a response from the ad hoc piconet; and computer-readable program code that is configured to provide the response to the client using a wide area network protocol.