US 10,163,318 B2Granted

Comprehensive system and method of universal real-time linking of real objects to a machine, network, internet, or software service

AssigneeLinquet Technologies, Inc.

InventorPooya H. Kazerouni

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Abstract

A system for detecting placement or misplacement of an object, comprising: a wireless tag; a first set of instructions which cause a first electronic device (“FED”) associated with the tag to automatically detect signals from the tag, determine a position of the FED, transmit the position and status to an external electronic device (“EED”) in response to the status indicating that the tag and the FED are within a predetermined range, and transmit the position and status to the EED in response to the status indicating that the tag and the FED are outside of the predetermined range; a second set of instructions which cause a second electronic device (“SED”) that is unassociated with the tag to automatically detect signals from the tag, determine a position of the SED, determine an identifier for the tag using the signals, and transmit the position and the identifier to the EED.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A system for detecting placement or misplacement of an object, the system comprising:

a wireless tag associated with the object;
a first set of instructions stored in a first non-transitory storage medium, the first set of instructions, when executed by one or more processors in a first electronic device associated with the wireless tag, cause the one or more processors in the first electronic device to automatically:
detect one or more signals from the wireless tag;
determine a position of the first electronic device;
determine a status of the wireless tag in response to a strength or absence of the one or more signals detected by the first electronic device, the status indicating that the wireless tag and the first electronic device are within a predetermined range or that the wireless tag and the first electronic device are outside the predetermined range;
transmit the position of the first electronic device and the status to an external electronic device in response to the status indicating that the wireless tag and the first electronic device are within the predetermined range;
and
transmit the position of the first electronic device and the status to the external electronic device in response to the status indicating that the wireless tag and the first electronic device are outside of the predetermined range;
a second set of instructions stored in a second non-transitory storage medium, the second set of instructions, when executed by one or more processors in a second electronic device that is unassociated with the wireless tag, cause the one or more processors in the second electronic device to automatically:
detect one or more signals from the wireless tag;
determine a position of the second electronic device;
determine an identifier for the wireless tag using the one or more signals from the wireless tag;
and
transmit the position of the second electronic device and the identifier to the external electronic device.

11 more elements

A software module for detecting placement or misplacement of a plurality of objects associated with a plurality of wireless tags using a plurality of electronic devices, the software module comprising instructions stored in a tangible, non-transitory storage medium that, when executed by one or more processors of each of the plurality of electronic devices, cause the one or more processors in each electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices to:

communicate signals with a radio transceiver of one or more wireless tags of the plurality of wireless tags;
determine a position of the electronic device;
determine a status for the one or more wireless tags of the plurality of wireless tags in response to a strength or absence of signals received by the electronic device from the one or more wireless tags, each status indicating that a particular wireless tag and the electronic device are within a predetermined range or that the particular wireless tag and the electronic device are outside of the predetermined range;
communicate data for each wireless tag of the plurality of wireless tags associated with the electronic device to an external network in response to the status for each of the one or more wireless tags associated with the electronic device indicating that the one or more wireless tags associated with the electronic device and the electronic device are outside the predetermined range, the data including:
the position of the electronic device;
and
the status for each of the one or more wireless tags associated with the electronic device;
and
communicate data for each wireless tag of the plurality of wireless tags associated with the electronic device to the external network in response to the status for each of the one or more wireless tags associated with the electronic device indicating that the one or more wireless tags associated with the electronic device and the electronic device are within the predetermined range, the data including:
the position of the electronic device;
and
the status for each of the one or more wireless tags associated with the electronic device;
and
communicate data for each wireless tag of the plurality of wireless tags unassociated with the electronic device to the external network in response to the status for each of the one or more wireless tags unassociated with the electronic device indicating that the one or more wireless tags unassociated with the electronic device and the electronic device are within the predetermined range, the data including:
the position of the electronic device;
and
the status for each of the one or more wireless tags unassociated with the electronic device.

14 more elements

A system for detecting placement or misplacement of an object, the system comprising:

a wireless tag associated with the object, the wireless tag including an internal power source and a radio transceiver;
and
instructions stored in a tangible, non-transitory storage medium that, when executed by one or more processors in a first electronic device, cause the one or more processors to:
communicate signals with the radio transceiver of the wireless tag using a radio transmitter in the first electronic device;
determine a position of the first electronic device;
determine a status of the wireless tag in response to a strength or absence of signals received by the first electronic device from the wireless tag, the status indicating when the wireless tag and the first electronic device are within a predetermined range and when the wireless tag and the first electronic device are outside of the predetermined range;
communicate data, including the position of the first electronic device and the status to an external electronic device or network in response to the status indicating that the wireless tag and the electronic device are within the predetermined range;
and
communicate data, including the position of the first electronic device and the status to the external electronic device or network in response to the status indicating that the wireless tag and the electronic device are outside the predetermined range,
wherein the instructions are a first set of instructions, the system further comprising a second set of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors in a second electronic device, cause the second electronic device to automatically:
communicate signals with the radio transceiver of the wireless tag using a radio transmitter in the second electronic device when the wireless tag and the second electronic device are within a predetermined range;
determine a position of the second electronic device;
determine an identifier of the wireless tag using the communicated signals;
and
communicate the determined identifier and the position of the second electronic device to the external electronic device or network.

12 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/005,193Filed 11 Jun 2018 · continuation
Priority: 8 Mar 2012
Published: US 2018/0293865 A111 Oct 2018
Granted: 25 Dec 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification21 codes

G08B 21/0269
Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child: system arrangements wherein the object is to…
G01S 3/782
Using electromagnetic waves other than radio waves: systems for determining direction or deviation from predetermined direction
G06K 7/10297
Sensing by radiation using wavelengths larger than 0.1 mm, e.g. radio-waves or microwaves: arrangements for handling protocols designed for…
G06K 19/0716
With integrated circuit chips: at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising a sensor or an interface to a sensor

Family

Application61/608,429Us provisional application · filed 8 Mar 2012
Application13/754,607Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Jan 2013
Application14/617,240Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Feb 2015
US 8,981,938 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Mar 2015
Application15/156,726Parent of this continuation · filed 17 May 2016
US 9,366,746 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Jun 2016
US 2018/0293865 A1Pre-grant publication · published 11 Oct 2018
US 9,997,043 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2013/0234853 A1Published application
US 2015/0219743 A1Published application
US 2016/0292980 A1Published application
US 10,163,318 B2This patent

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