Context-aware, intelligent beaconing
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorTorsten A. Staab
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Abstract
A device and method for context-aware, intelligent beaconing in a mission include: determining a current location of a beacon device; obtaining context information from one or more of a plurality of sensors, a database, a server, the beacon device, and external devices, wherein the context information includes behavior of the beacon device, and mission objectives; dynamically fusing the context information together to produce fused context information; dynamically setting a frequency for transmission of a beacon, based on the fused context information; and transmitting the beacon at the set frequency.
Claims37
A method executed by a plurality of processors for context-aware, intelligent beaconing in a mission, the method comprising:
- determining a current location of a beacon device;
- obtaining context information from one or more of a plurality of sensors, a database, a server, the beacon device, and external devices, wherein the context information includes behavior of the beacon device, and mission objectives;
- dynamically fusing the context information together to produce fused context information;
- dynamically setting a frequency for transmission of a beacon, based on the fused context information;
- and
- transmitting the beacon at the set frequency.
A beacon device for context-aware, intelligent beaconing in a mission comprising:
- a location sensor for determining a current location of a beacon device;
- an interface circuit for:
- obtaining context information from one or more of a plurality of sensors, a database, a server, the beacon device, and external devices, wherein the context information includes behavior of the beacon device, and mission objectives, and
- obtaining fused context information produced by dynamically fusing the context information together;
- a processor for dynamically setting a frequency for transmission of a beacon, based on the fused context information;
- and
- a transmitter for transmitting the beacon at the set frequency.
A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein computer readable instructions, the instructions when executed by one or more processor perform a method for context-aware, intelligent beaconing in a mission, the method comprising:
- determining a current location of a beacon device;
- obtaining context information from one or more of a plurality of sensors, a database, a server, the beacon device, and external devices, wherein the context information includes behavior of the beacon device, and mission objectives;
- dynamically fusing the context information together to produce fused context information;
- dynamically setting a frequency for transmission of a beacon, based on the fused context information;
- and
- transmitting the beacon at the set frequency.
A method executed by a plurality of processors for context-aware, intelligent beaconing in a mission, the method comprising:
- determining a current location of a beacon device;
- obtaining context information from one or more of a plurality of sensors, a database, a server, the beacon device, and external devices, wherein the context information includes behavior of the beacon device and mission objectives;
- dynamically fusing the context information together to produce fused context information;
- dynamically delegating transmission of a beacon to a second beacon device different than the beacon device, based on the fused context information;
- and
- transmitting the beacon at a frequency.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.