Patent ID: 8868684
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for coordinating telepresence among multiple interconnected devices, comprising: determining the temporary presence of a first interconnected mobile device and a second interconnected mobile device in a first network and in a common definable space; determining multimedia capabilities, including the ability to capture any data of a particular type of media, of the first interconnected mobile device and the second interconnected mobile device; and selectively and temporarily enabling communications of a type of media information using one of the first interconnected mobile device and the second interconnected mobile device by an external controller, external to the first interconnected mobile device and the second interconnected mobile device, over a second network and simultaneously and temporarily not enabling communications of the type of media information using the other of the first interconnected mobile device and the second interconnected mobile device by the external controller over the second network, wherein the first interconnected mobile device and the second interconnected mobile device are temporarily and dynamically coordinated on-demand by the external controller during the temporary presence in the common definable space, and wherein the first interconnected mobile device and second interconnected mobile device are selected to transmit the type of media information based on a determination of which of the first interconnected mobile device and second interconnected mobile device has a power supply estimated to last a longest time.