Method and Apparatus for Detecting Smartphone Application Users Utilizing Globally Unique Identifiers and Wireless Sensors
AssigneeKakku Pty Ltd.
InventorYee Ming Soon
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Abstract
A method capable of detecting a location and activities of smartphone application users by combining the use of Globally Unique Identifiers (GUID) and various physical sensor infrastructure technologies. GUID (or UUID) is also known as ‘Globally Unique Identifier’ or ‘Universally Unique Identifier’ which uses a 128-bit integer number to identify resources. The physical sensor infrastructure technology includes WiFi, iBeacon and/or Near Field Communications.
Claims31
A method comprising detecting the location of smartphone application users by combining the use of Globally Unique Identifiers (GUID) and physical sensor infrastructure technologies WiFi, iBeacon and NFC.
A network system, comprising:
- Smartphones [101], WiFi infrastructure [102], iBeacon sensor infrastructure [103], NFC sensor infrastructure [104], Location servers [113] and Application server [105], interoperable as a single end-to-end service entity to detect and report on user application locations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.