Method and apparatus for providing a communications service using a low powered radio tag

US10089567B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. · US
• AT&T Mobility II LLC · US

Inventors

• Thomas Schleef · Richardson, US
• Craig Lee · Redondo Beach, US
• William Francis Bradee · Plano, US
• Matthew Cook · Plano, US
• David Gordon Marten · Sachse, US
• Rick McConney · Plano, US
• Steve Martin · Centennial, US
• Wesley B. Neibaur · Flower Mound, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 15, 2016
• Grant date: Oct 2, 2018
• Expiry date: Dec 15, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02D30/70
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A radio tag comprising a first radio and a second radio and a method for providing a communications service are disclosed. For example, the method comprises entering, by a processor of the radio tag, an active state of the radio tag and activating the second radio when a wake-up signal is received, where the second radio draws power from a power source, transmitting, by the processor of the radio tag, data to a device or receiving the data from the device when the radio tag is in the active state, and deactivating, by the processor of the radio tag, the second radio and entering an idle state when the wake-up signal is no longer being received, where only the first radio draws power from the power source for listening for the wake-up signal in the idle state.