Devices and network architecture for improved beacon-mediated data context sensing
US9961523B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 12, 2016 |
| Grant date | May 1, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 12, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W84/18
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Architectures, devices, systems and methods incorporating beacon transmissions that comply with a defined communications protocol having frames corresponding to a universally unique identifier (UUID) value, a major value, and a minor value, in which the transmissions incorporate sensor data encoded on the fly into one or more of the values or frames of the protocol. Sensor data may include temperature, light intensity, smoke, voltage, sound, motion, displacement, acceleration, humidity, pressure, radiation, button-press stimulus event, compass direction, proximity, or other stimuli or sensor data, for example, and is more generally termed “contextual content”. According to relationships and permissions established by a receiving device and/or system, look-up results are processed to configure notifications tied to the contextual content of the broadcast. Notifications to a receiving device and/or system are configured according to contextual data broadcast by the beacon. Beacons having the improved communications protocol may be deployed individually or in networks. The beacon broadcast may be accessed by naïve devices, but bit overloading may also be used to prevent unauthorized s…
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