Cost-Effective Mobile Connectivity Protocols

Abstract

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

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         120 . A communication management system comprising:
 at least one electronic device including at least:
 circuitry configured for obtaining configuration data establishing at least one security protocol; 
 circuitry configured for receiving one or more wireless signals containing one or more access requests including at least one data pattern from at least one wireless communication device; 
 circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol based at least partly on the at least one data pattern and the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol; 
 circuitry configured for determining at least one firewall configuration based at least partly on whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol; and 
 circuitry configured for implementing at least one firewall between a first network communication path to a first wireless communication device and a second network communication signal path to a second communication device based at least partly on the at least one firewall configuration. 
   
     
     
         121 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the at least one electronic device includes:
 at least one of at least one integrated circuit chip or at least one motor vehicle. 
 
     
     
         122 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining configuration data establishing at least one security protocol includes:
 at least one of:
 circuitry configured for obtaining configuration data establishing at least one of an access code, a password, a watermark, or a checksum; 
 circuitry configured for obtaining at least one data pattern establishing the at least one security protocol; 
 circuitry configured for obtaining the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol from the at least one wireless communication device; 
 circuitry configured for obtaining the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol from at least one network configuration unit; 
 circuitry configured for obtaining the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol from at least one server. 
 
 
     
     
         123 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for receiving one or more wireless signals containing one or more access requests including at least one data pattern from at least one wireless communication device includes:
 circuitry configured for receiving one or more wireless signals containing one or more access requests including at least one data pattern from at least one of a smartphone or a computer. 
 
     
     
         124 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for receiving one or more wireless signals containing one or more access requests including at least one data pattern from at least one wireless communication device includes:
 circuitry configured for receiving user vocalization data including one or more voice commands. 
 
     
     
         125 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for receiving one or more wireless signals containing one or more access requests including at least one data pattern from at least one wireless communication device includes:
 at least one of:
 circuitry configured for receiving at least one data pattern from the at least one wireless communication device including a current password generated by a password generation module; 
 circuitry configured for receiving at least one data pattern including a current password generated by a password generation module; 
 circuitry configured for receiving at least one initial security protocol implementing data pattern; 
 circuitry configured for receiving at least one initial security protocol implementing data pattern during manufacture; or 
 circuitry configured for receiving at least one wireless signal indicative of entry of the at least one wireless communication device into a wireless operating range of a network. 
 
 
     
     
         126 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for receiving one or more wireless signals containing one or more access requests including at least one data pattern from at least one wireless communication device includes:
 circuitry configured for receiving one or more wireless signals generated responsive to a user input including at least one of:
 at least one password input by at least one user from the wireless communication device; or 
 at least one user input initiating a telephone call. 
 
 
     
     
         127 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for receiving one or more wireless signals containing one or more access requests including at least one data pattern from at least one wireless communication device includes:
 circuitry configured for receiving at least one access request from at least one user and determining whether the at least one user is a particular speaker by speech recognition. 
 
     
     
         128 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol includes:
 circuitry configured for detecting one or more service region departure events. 
 
     
     
         129 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol includes:
 circuitry configured for comparing a data block delivery failure rate relating to at least one of two or more network communication signal paths against a failure rate threshold. 
 
     
     
         130 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol includes:
 determining whether the at least one wireless communication device is configured for enabling at least one user to interact via speech of at least one user. 
 
     
     
         131 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol includes:
 circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol based at least partly on at least one of decisions, manifestations, side effects, results, coding, expressions, displayable images, data files, data associations, statistical correlations, streaming signals, intensity levels, frequencies, measurable attributes, or packets and the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol. 
 
     
     
         132 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol includes:
 circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol based at least partly on at least one of avatars, identification of at least one person, identification of at least one device known to at least one user, or status indications and the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol. 
 
     
     
         133 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol includes:
 at least one of:
 circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol based at least partly on status data including at least one of records, expressions of times, expressions of positions, or shape-descriptive information relating to one or more wireless service regions or devices and the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol; 
 circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol based at least partly on at least one identifier of a remote mobile device  2870  or user listed at a computer and the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol; or 
 circuitry configured for determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol based at least partly on at least one of clips generated by an audio capture module or a video capture module, coordinates from at least one positioning system module, textual expressions from a speech recognition module, decrypted data blocks from a decryption module, decoded data blocks from a decoding module, or maps and the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol. 
 
 
     
     
         134 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for implementing at least one firewall between a first network communication path to a first wireless communication device and a second network communication signal path to a second communication device includes:
 at least one of:
 circuitry configured for signaling a decision whether to transmit any user data via at least one of the two or more network communication signal paths; or 
 circuitry configured for signaling a decision whether to adjust a latency threshold for user data passing via at least one of the two or more network communication signal paths in response to one or more channel performance metrics relating to at least one communication channel; or 
 circuitry configured for signaling a result to a user via the at least one wireless communication device indicating whether at least one of the one or more access requests is compliant with the at least one security protocol. 
 
 
     
     
         135 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for implementing at least one firewall between a first network communication path to a first wireless communication device and a second network communication signal path to a second communication device includes:
 circuitry configured for incrementally decreasing a dataflow through at least one of the two or more network communication signal paths. 
 
     
     
         136 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for implementing at least one firewall between a first network communication path to a first wireless communication device and a second network communication signal path to a second communication device includes:
 at least one of:
 circuitry configured for providing access to the at least one wireless communication device from one or more networks via two or more network communication signal paths, wherein at least one network communication signal path includes at least one linkage through a vehicle operated by a user that has transmitted access request data that satisfies at least one security protocol; 
 circuitry configured for providing access to the at least one wireless communication device from one or more networks via two or more network communication signal paths, wherein at least one network communication signal path includes at least one linkage through a handheld device operated by a user who has transmitted at least one access request that satisfies the at least one security protocol. 
 
 
     
     
         137 . The communication management system of  claim 120  wherein the circuitry configured for implementing at least one firewall between a first network communication path to a first wireless communication device and a second network communication signal path to a second communication device includes:
 providing access to the at least one wireless communication device and at least one other wireless communication device from one or more networks via two or more network communication signal paths, wherein at least one network communication signal path includes at least one linkage through at least one other wireless communication device operable as an intermediate device that includes at least one queue for simultaneous processing of two or more channels. 
 
     
     
         138 . A communication management method comprising:
 obtaining configuration data establishing at least one security protocol;   receiving one or more wireless signals containing one or more access requests including at least one data pattern from at least one wireless communication device;   determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol based at least partly on the at least one data pattern and the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol;   determining at least one firewall configuration based at least partly on whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol; and   implementing at least one firewall between a first network communication path to a first wireless communication device and a second network communication signal path to a second communication device based at least partly on the at least one firewall configuration.   
     
     
         139 . A communication management system comprising:
 at least one processor; and   at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one processor configured for:
 obtaining configuration data establishing at least one security protocol; 
 receiving one or more wireless signals containing one or more access requests including at least one data pattern from at least one wireless communication device; 
 determining whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol based at least partly on the at least one data pattern and the configuration data establishing the at least one security protocol; 
 determining at least one firewall configuration based at least partly on whether the one or more access requests are compliant with the at least one security protocol; and 
 implementing at least one firewall between a first network communication path to a first wireless communication device and a second network communication signal path to a second communication device based at least partly on the at least one firewall configuration.