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

摘要

Computationally implemented methods and systems include detecting presence of one or more electronic devices near a wearable computing device, the wearable computing device being a computing device designed to be worn by a user; determining which of the one or more electronic devices that are detected as being near 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 acquiring, by the wearable computing device based at least, in part, on said detecting and said determining, one or more specific functionalities that are available through at least one electronic device that was detected as being near the wearable computing device and that was determined to provide the one or more specific functionalities. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

主权项

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.