Systems and methods for providing one or more functionalities to a wearable computing device with directional antenna

摘要

Computationally implemented methods and systems include 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; determining that the one or more electronic devices are within a spatial pod surrounding the wearable computing device based, at least in part, on the one or more signals received by the wearable computing device; 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. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

主权项

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.