Information processing device, information processing method and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10383134-B2
Application number	US-201815995964-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 1, 2018
Priority date	Nov 15, 2013
Publication date	Aug 13, 2019
Grant date	Aug 13, 2019

Abstract

Communication resources are appropriately used. An information processing device is an information processing device including an acquisition unit and a control unit. Here, the acquisition unit acquires a relative priority of each information processing device in a network built through autonomous wireless communication of a plurality of information processing devices. In addition, the control unit performs control such that a communication resource of the network is allocated based on the priority (a relative priority of each information processing device in the network) acquired by the acquisition unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing node, comprising:
circuitry configured to
acquire priority information indicating respective priorities of a plurality of information processing devices in a wireless communication network,
determine a priority of the information processing node based on the acquired priority information and each value of point information assigned to each of the plurality of information processing devices by a user operation,
perform wireless communication using a communication resource of the wireless communication network that is allocated based on the determined priority, and
exchange data packets between the information processing node and the plurality of information processing devices in the wireless communication network using a multi-hop relay.

2. The information processing node according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to
obtain the communication resource based on a comparison result of one or more of the priorities of the plurality of information processing devices and the priority of the information processing node.

3. The information processing node according to claim 1 , wherein
the communication resource corresponds to a magnitude of transmission power.

4. The information processing node according to claim 1 , wherein
the communication resource corresponds to allocation of a channel.

5. The information processing node according to claim 4 , wherein
a channel whose congestion level is lower than a first threshold is allocated to an information processing device whose priority level is above a second threshold, and
a channel whose congestion level is greater than a third threshold is allocated to an information processing device whose priority level is below a fourth threshold.

6. The information processing node according to claim 1 , wherein
the communication resource corresponds to allocation of a transmission timing.

7. The information processing node according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to
retain the priorities of the plurality of information processing devices as list information, and
acquire a relative priority of the information processing node based on the list information.

8. The information processing node according to claim 7 , wherein
the list information separately retains first priorities for transmitting data and second priorities for receiving data,
the circuitry is configured to perform data transmission using the communication resource that is allocated based on the first priorities, and
the circuitry is configured to perform data reception using the communication resource that is allocated based on the second priorities.

9. The information processing node according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to
exchange the point information with another device that is outside the wireless communication network.

10. The information processing node according to claim 9 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to
calculate the value of the point information of the information processing node associated with a user of the information processing node based on a user activity of the user in a social networking service (SNS).

11. The information processing node according to claim 9 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to
calculate the value of the point information of the information processing node based on physical device attributes information of the information processing node.

12. The information processing node according to claim 9 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to
calculate the value of the point information of the information processing node based on user account information of a user of the information processing node.

13. The information processing node according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to
distribute setting information for performing the wireless communication through a social networking service (SNS).

14. The information processing node according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to
include the priority information in a beacon, and
transmit the beacon in the wireless communication network,
wherein the plurality of information processing devices are configured to update the priority information with their own priority information using the multi-hop relay.

15. An information processing method, comprising:
acquiring, by circuitry of an information processing node, priority information indicating respective priorities of a plurality of information processing devices in a wireless communication network;
determining a priority of the information processing node based on the acquired priority information and each value of point information assigned to each of the plurality of information processing devices by a user operation;
performing wireless communication using a communication resource of the wireless communication network that is allocated based on the determined priority; and
exchanging data packets between the information processing node and the plurality of information processing devices in the wireless communication network using a multi-hop relay.

16. The information processing method according to claim 15 , further comprising:
obtaining the communication resource based on a comparison result of one or more of the priorities of the plurality of information processing devices and the priority of the information processing node.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable instructions which when executed by a processor of an information processing node cause the information processing node to:
acquire priority information indicating respective priorities of a plurality of information processing devices in a wireless communication network,
determine a priority of the information processing node based on the acquired priority information and each value of point information assigned to each of the plurality of information processing devices by a user operation,
perform wireless communication using a communication resource of the wireless communication network that is allocated based on the determined priority, and
exchange data packets between the information processing node and the plurality of information processing devices in the wireless communication network using a multi-hop relay.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 17 , wherein the computer-readable instructions which when executed by the processor of the information processing node further cause the information processing node to
obtain the communication resource based on a comparison result of one or more of the priorities of the plurality of information processing devices and the priority of the information processing node.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Itaya Natsuki
• Sakoda Kazuyuki
• Watanabe Nobuhiko
• Takehara Mitsuru
• Nakamura Takatoshi
• Takada Masayuki
• Sonoda Shuhei

Classifications

• H04W84/18

  Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks · CPC title

• H04W72/0473

  the resource being transmission power · CPC title

• H04W72/56 Primary

  based on priority criteria · CPC title

• H04W72/52

  based on load · CPC title

• H04W72/10 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic