Systems and methods to provide wireless communication between computing platforms and articles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11076276-B1
Application number	US-202016818433-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Mar 13, 2020
Priority date	Mar 13, 2020
Publication date	Jul 27, 2021
Grant date	Jul 27, 2021

Abstract

This disclosure presents systems and methods to provide wireless communication between computing platforms and wearable articles. Exemplary implementations may: obtain wireless communication signals from a first wearable article and detect presence of the first wearable article; obtain wireless communication signals from the first wearable article conveying article information identifying the first wearable article and/or a user; identify customizable attributes of one or more application programs; determine custom-defined values for the customizable attributes; effectuate the custom-defined values for the customizable attributes of one or more application programs such that the one or more application programs reflect the custom-defined values; and/or perform other operations.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system configured to provide wireless communication between computing platforms and wearable articles of clothing, the system comprising:
a first wearable article of clothing associated with a user, the first wearable article of clothing including a first transceiver and a first non-transitory electronic storage, the first transceiver being configured to transmit and/or receive wireless communication signals, the first non-transitory electronic storage storing article information, the article information identifying the first wearable article of clothing based on a characterization of content portrayed on the first wearable article of clothing; and
one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
obtain a set of one or more wireless communication signals from the first wearable article of clothing and detect presence of the first wearable article of clothing based on the set of one or more wireless communication signals;
obtain the article information;
identify customizable attributes of one or more application programs;
determine custom-defined values for the customizable attributes of the one or more application programs based on the article information such that the custom-defined values are specific to the article information, wherein the custom-defined values are specific to the article information by virtue of the custom-defined values being representative of the characterization of the content portrayed on the first wearable article of clothing; and
effectuate the custom-defined values for the customizable attributes of the one or more application programs such that the one or more application programs are configured to reflect the custom-defined values.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the custom-defined values are specific to the article information by virtue of the custom-defined values being representative of an identity of the first wearable article of clothing and/or the user.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the custom-defined values are representative of the identity of the first wearable article of clothing and/or the user based on the custom-defined values specifically referring to the identity of the first wearable article of clothing and/or the user.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the one or more application programs reflect the custom-defined values by including visual depictions of the identity of the first wearable article of clothing and/or the user.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the customizable attributes include display attributes, audio attributes, and function attributes, the display attributes reflecting display characteristics of the one or more application programs, the audio attributes reflecting audio characteristics of the one or more application programs, and the function attributes reflecting functionality of the one or more application programs.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first wearable article of clothing further includes one or more sensors configured to generate output signals conveying sensor information, the one or more sensors including one or more of a motion sensor, orientation sensor, pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, a light sensor, a moisture sensor, or a heart rate sensor.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by the machine-readable instructions to:
obtain the sensor information; and
determine one or more of the custom-defined values for the customizable attributes based on the sensor information such that the one or more of the custom-defined values are specific to the sensor information.

8. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a second article, the second article including a second transceiver and a second non-transitory electronic storage, the second transceiver being configured to transmit and/or receive second wireless communication signals, the second non-transitory electronic storage storing second article information, the second article information identifying the second article; and
wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by the machine-readable instructions to:
receive a second set of one or more wireless communication signals from the second article and detect presence of the second article based on the second set of one or more wireless communication signals;
obtain the second article information;
determine one or more of the custom-defined values for the customizable attributes of the one or more application programs based on the second article information such that the one or more of the custom-defined values are specific to the article information and the second article information;
effectuate the one or more of the custom-defined values for the customizable attributes of the one or more application programs.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more application programs include:
a display application that dictates display configurations of a computing platform,
a messaging application that facilitates communication of messages to and/or from the computing platform, and
a gaming application that facilitates gameplay within one or more game spaces.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein a customizable attribute of the messaging application includes a keyboard attribute for a keyboard of the messaging application, and a custom-defined value of the keyboard attribute configures the keyboard to be representative of the characterization of the content portrayed on the first wearable article of clothing.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the customizable attributes include display attributes, audio attributes, and function attributes, the display attributes reflecting display characteristics of the one or more application programs, the audio attributes reflecting audio characteristics of the one or more application programs, and the function attributes reflecting functionality of the one or more application programs.

12. A method to provide wireless communication between computing platforms and wearable articles of clothing, the wearable articles including a first wearable article of clothing associated with a user, the first wearable article of clothing including a first transceiver and a first non-transitory electronic storage, the first transceiver being configured to transmit and/or receive wireless communication signals, the first non-transitory electronic storage storing article information, the article information identifying the first wearable article of clothing based on a characterization of content portrayed on the first wearable article of clothing, the method comprising:
obtaining a set of one or more wireless communication signals from the first wearable article of clothing and detecting presence of the first wearable article of clothing based on the set of one or more wireless communication signals;
obtaining the article information;
identifying customizable attributes of one or more application programs;
determining custom-defined values for the customizable attributes of the one or more application programs based on the article information such that the custom-defined values are specific to the article information, wherein the custom-defined values are specific to the article information by virtue of the custom-defined values being representative of the characterization of the content portrayed on the first wearable article of clothing; and
effectuating the custom-defined values for the customizable attributes of the one or more application programs such that the one or more application programs are configured to reflect the custom-defined values.

13. The method of claim 12 , where

Assignees

• Disney Entpr Inc

Inventors

• Nocon Nathan D
• Gibson Hunter J
• Goslin Michael P
• Medrano Tritia V
• Panec Timothy M
• Yeung Jason

Classifications

• G06Q30/0601

  Electronic shopping [e-shopping] · CPC title

• A41D1/002

  adapted to accommodate electronic equipment (patients' garments for medical monitoring A41D13/1281; luminous ornaments A41D27/085) · CPC title

• G06Q30/0241

  Advertisements · CPC title

• H04W4/80 Primary

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• H04W4/38

  for collecting sensor information · CPC title