RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ON A PERSONAL AREA NETWORK

摘要

A method for resource management in a personal area network includes providing (300) a plurality of communication devices with sharable resources on the personal area network. Each communication device has a resource manager able to communicate and manage the available resources of its resident device on the personal area network. Any one of the resource managers can be assigned (302) as a master resource manager for the personal area network to coordinate (308) information transfer and allocate available resources from the plurality of communication devices. The resources of each communication device is registered (304) in the personal area network with the master resource manager, which coordinates (308) information transfer with the devices when resources are requested (306) from the personal area network.