And does a person communicating using such a device still require a guardian to make legal and medical decisions on his or her behalf?

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In contrast, mesh networks are totally decentralized, with each device capable of communicating directly with its neighbors.

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In analog cellular days every phone had an external antenna, this gave the device better range when it was communicating with the cell sites.

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The insole does this by communicating with a "base station, " an intermediary device between the button in the shoe and the television set, which uses a radio signal to calculate and transmit the information.

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This patent application is much more concerned with viewing and interacting with the device, almost as a console, than it is with actually communicating.

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The device may update the financial transaction rules associated with a subsidiary account by communicating the rules to an appropriate financial server.

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