公开(公告)号：AT333678T

公开(公告)日：2006-08-15

申请号：AT00959158

申请日：2000-08-24

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BASS BRIAN MITCHELL ,  CALVIGNAC JEAN LOUIS ,  GALLO ANTHONY MATTEO ,  HEDDES MARCO C ,  PROPERTY LAW HURSLEY PARK ,  RAO SRIDHAR ,  SIEGEL MICHAEL STEVEN ,  YOUNGMAN BRIAN ALAN ,  VERPLANKEN FABRICE JEAN

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F15/177 ,  H04L12/56 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F13/38 ,  G06F15/00 ,  G06F15/76 ,  G06F15/173

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for transporting control information in a communications system. The apparatus comprises a network processor, a control point processor operatively coupled to the network processor, and a guided frame generated by the control point processor. The guided frame comprises a first section in which frame control information is placed and is used by the network processor to update at least one control register within the network processor; a second section carrying correlators assigned by the control point processor to correlate guided frame responses with their requests; a third section carrying one or a sequence of guided commands; and an End delimiter guided command.

公开(公告)号：AT277481T

公开(公告)日：2004-10-15

申请号：AT01955446

申请日：2001-07-23

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： STERN EDITH C O IBM UNITED KIN ,  PROPERTY LAW HURSLEY PARK

IPC: G08G1/0962 ,  H04Q7/32

Abstract: The disclosed system and method for automated proximity determination and notification is useful to enable a customer or client of a business or other enterprise (e.g. a public library, a government facility, etc) to automatically obtain a predetermined service, on arrival at a destination associated with the business or enterprise, without having to communicate orally with representatives of the business/enterprise. A portable programmable wireless communication device is carried by users of such services. The device, termed a PLAD (pervasive location aware device), receives a program and proximity notification parameters associated with each destination to be visited, when service is reserved relative to the destination. Thereafter, as its user travels to the destinations, the PLAD is activated and uses the program information and parameters acquired in the reservation process to perform a proximity notification transmission characteristic of this invention as the device reaches a predetermined range of proximity to a destination. For that purpose, the PLAD calculates its distance to each currently valid destination at which a service is reserved, and sends a proximity notification signal to an address associated with a respective destination when its distance to the respective destination is less than a predetermined threshold radius limit acquired during the reservation process. Receiving equipment at the address uses the proximity notification signal to arrange for prompt execution of a reserved service when the user of the PLAD arrives at the respective destination. The PLAD also can be used in a reverse context-when its user is at a specific location and the service is being delivered to that location by a vehicle carrying another PLAD operated by or for a business/enterprise-to alert the user to the imminent arrival of that vehicle.