News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “ “Embodiments of the present invention relates generally to communication, more p articularly to device to device communication using visible light patterns. “Smartphones are equipped with multiple radio communication protocols allowing t hem to interact directly with each other, which is desirable when Wi-Fi or cellu lar links are unavailable or overloaded. However, these connections are short-ra nge and can be blocked or jammed.” As a supplement to the background information on this patent application, NewsRx correspondents also obtained the inventor’s summary information for this patent application: “The following summary is included in order to provide a basic und erstanding of some aspects and features of the invention. This summary is not an extensive overview of the invention and as such it is not intended to particula rly identify key or critical elements of the invention or to delineate the scope of the invention. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of the invention in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is pres ented below.
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