Systems and methods of active beacons
AssigneeIndustrial Scientific Corporation
InventorsRaghu Arunachalam, L. Robert Crouthamel
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Abstract
A system for creating of list of active beacons includes at least one receiving device, comprising a receiver adapted to receive a beacon broadcast from one or more of a plurality of beacons, resulting in one or more received beacon broadcasts, a processor, a memory, and a smart beacon application. For each received beacon broadcast comprising informational data and data regarding a range of relevance for that beacon, the smart beacon application: 1) determines whether the beacon is relevant by comparing a strength of the received beacon broadcast to the range of relevance in the beacon broadcast, and 2) creates a list of relevant beacons.
Claims36
A system comprising:
- at least one receiving device, comprising:
- a receiver adapted to receive a beacon broadcast corresponding to a beacon of a plurality of beacons, wherein each beacon broadcast comprises informational data and data regarding a minimum received signal strength for a relevance of a corresponding beacon;
- a processor;
- a memory;
- and
- a smart beacon application,
- wherein, the smart beacon application determines whether the corresponding beacon is relevant by comparing the data regarding the minimum received signal strength for the relevance of the corresponding beacon to an actual received signal strength of a current beacon broadcast and, wherein, if the actual received signal strength of the current beacon broadcast is greater than or equal to the minimum received signal strength for the relevance of the corresponding beacon, the smart beacon application adds the corresponding beacon to a list of relevant beacons.
A system, comprising:
- at least one receiving device comprising:
- a receiver adapted to receive a beacon broadcast corresponding to a beacon of a plurality of beacons, wherein each beacon broadcast comprises informational data and data regarding a minimum received signal strength for a relevance of a corresponding beacon;
- a processor;
- a memory;
- and
- a smart beacon application,
- wherein, the smart beacon application calculates a normalized average of actual received signal strength of corresponding received beacon broadcasts over a predetermined number of samples, and determines a relevance of the corresponding beacon by comparing the data regarding a minimum received signal strength for the relevance of the corresponding beacon with the normalized average actual received signal strength of the corresponding received beacon broadcast, and, if the normalized average of actual received signal strength of corresponding received beacon broadcast is greater than or equal to the minimum received signal strength for the relevance of the corresponding beacon, creates a list of relevant beacons.
A system comprising:
- at least one receiving device comprising:
- a receiver adapted to receive a beacon broadcast corresponding to a beacon of a plurality of beacons, wherein each beacon broadcast comprises informational data and data regarding a minimum received signal strength for a relevance of a corresponding beacon;
- a processor;
- a memory;
- and
- a smart beacon application,
- wherein, the smart beacon application calculates an average actual received signal strength of the received beacon broadcasts from a corresponding beacon over a predetermined number of samples, and determines whether the corresponding beacon is relevant by comparing the average actual received signal strength of the corresponding received beacon broadcasts to the data regarding the minimum received signal strength the relevance of the corresponding beacon, and, if the average actual received signal strength of corresponding received beacon broadcasts is greater than or equal to the minimum received signal strength for the relevance of the corresponding beacon, creates a list of relevant beacons.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.