Consider a scenario where a customer purchases several items at a retail store and wishes to pay for these purchases using a wireless mobile device at an unstaffed store kiosk. The kiosk has both wired and wireless connectivity. One of the problems that needs to be solved in the context is the pairing of the mobile device with the correct kiosk. We refer to this as the disambiguation problem. This report discusses several issues associated with the disambiguation problem and presents solutions to this problem.
NOTE: This report was declassified on 7/31/03
By: M. T. Raghunath, Stefan Berger, Stefan Hild, Christian Hoertnagl, Scott McFaddin, Chandra Narayanaswami, Jung-Mu Tang, Mimi Zohar
Published in: RC22500 in 2002
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