TECHNIQUE FOR OFFLOADING COMPUTE OPERATIONS UTILIZING A LOW-LATENCY DATA TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL

• Main Author: AZAR HASSANE S
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.05.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION ANDCOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION ANDCOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THIR OWNENERGY USE; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; PHYSICS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for offloading certain classes of compute operations from battery-powered handheld devices operating in a wireless private area network (WPAN) to devices with relatively greater computing capabilities operating in the WPAN that are not power-limited by batteries. In order to offload certain classes of compute operations, a handheld device may discover an offload device within a local network via a discovery mechanism, and offload large or complex compute operations to the offload device by utilizing one or more low-latency communications protocols, such as Wi-Fi Direct or a combination of Wi-Fi Direct and real-time transport protocol (RTP). One advantage of the disclosed techniques is that the techniques allow handheld devices to perform complex operations without substantially impacting battery life.