PROTOCOLS FOR FACILITATING BROADER ACCESS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

摘要

Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision concerning a wireless service or device within a region to a communication device (smartphone or wearable device, e.g.) or other wireless communication participant (motor vehicle having a wireless communication capability, e.g.).

主权项

1. A communication management system comprising:
one or more articles of manufacture including a first transistor-based circuit configured to obtain a first location estimate describing a first location of a first mobile device; a second transistor-based circuit configured to obtain first provenance data indicating a protocol by which the first mobile device apparently obtained the first location estimate; a third transistor-based circuit configured to signal a decision whether or not to update a wireless connectivity map automatically and conditionally, partly based on the first location estimate describing the first location of the first mobile device and partly based on the first provenance data indicating the protocol by which the first mobile device apparently obtained the first location estimate; and a fourth transistor-based circuit configured to cause a second mobile device to indicate some of the wireless connectivity map audibly or visibly after the decision whether or not to update the wireless connectivity map automatically and conditionally partly based on the first location estimate describing the first location of the first mobile device and partly based on the first provenance data indicating the protocol by which the first mobile device apparently obtained the first location estimate, the second mobile device comprising at least one of a handheld device or a wearable assembly.