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US 2014/0155098 A1Published application
System for providing information and associated devices
AssigneeIsis Innovation Limited
InventorsAndrew Markham, Niki Trigoni, Jean-Paul Van de Ven
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Abstract
A system for providing locality information to a user is disclosed. The system comprises at least one magnetic field beacon. Each beacon comprises means for generating a magnetic field encoded with information associated with the beacon. A communication device is provided that comprises means for detecting the encoded magnetic field emitted by the beacon and means for extracting the information encoded in the detected magnetic field.
Claims2
A communication system for providing information to a user of a mobile telephone, the system comprising:
- a beacon comprising:
- means for generating a magnetic field having a time-varying magnetic field vector, wherein said time-varying magnetic field vector is modulated to encode information associated with said beacon;
- and
- a mobile telephone comprising:
- means for detecting the magnetic field having the time-varying magnetic field vector generated by the beacon;
- and
- means for extracting said encoded information from said detected magnetic field.
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