Wi-Fi protocol enhancement techniques utilizing beacon frame and unique identifier for low power networking for the internet-of-things
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsBen Wild, Rob Barton, Ravneet Bajwa
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Abstract
A system and method enhances Wi-Fi protocol by transmitting an Internet-of-Things (IoT) notification map designated for an IoT device. The IoT notification map having format of at least part of a beacon frame and be included in an IoT beacon frame that, when transmitted by at least one router, causes the IoT device to perform an operation indicated in the IoT notification map. The at least one router may be part of the router cluster designated for the IoT device. The router cluster may include a subset of a plurality of routers within a geographical area associated with a location of the IoT device.
Claims17
A wireless router comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform further operations comprising:
- receiving, from a remote system, identifier data representing a unique identifier identifying a first Wi-Fi enabled device, the first Wi-Fi enabled device being unconnected to the wireless router;
- determining a location associated with the wireless router;
- based at least in part on receiving the identifier data, generating a first beacon frame by at least adding the location to a first field of the first beacon frame and the unique identifier to a second field of the first beacon frame, the first beacon frame being associated with a Wi-Fi protocol;
- and
- transmitting the first beacon frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.