Entry Date:
May 11, 2002

Wireless Logic Extension to CORE Message-Parsing

Principal Investigator Larry Rudolph


Imagine walking into your living room. You sit down on your couch and pull out your Bluetooth enabled, rollable keyboard, or possibly a rollable PDLCD touchscreen, from your pocket. Next, you start typing on your keyboard and your Tivo set starts playing your favorite sitcom show on your web-enabled TV. You then start typing on your keyboard again, but this time your favorite blues cd starts playing softly in the background. As you finish typing again, your automated robotic dog brings you your evening newspaper that was just printed on your printer upstairs. By the way, your only computer in the house is in the basement.

Today, there is no current technology that will allow a person to achieve such a scenario. One would have to plug in a keyboard directly into the device that is needed and then start communicating. However, the traditional plug-and- play model does not fit well into a human-centric world of pervasive computing. In this scenario, the one input device here can talk to all necessary devices via a wireless network. Correct packets of information are routed based on location and/or context of the input to the keyboard. This research will attempt to outline and implement a possible solution to this scenario using Bluetooth, 802.11, and other cutting-edge technology.