Monitoring objects capable of wireless communications
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsSwarup Kumar Mohalik, Mahesh Babu JAYARAMAN
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Abstract
A method of monitoring objects capable of wireless communications is provided. The method includes detecting an activity performed by a user of a wireless communications device, acquiring information identifying an expected set of objects which are associated with the detected activity, determining whether at least one of the objects in the expected set is not in proximity of the wireless communications device, and if so, notifying the user that at least one of the objects in the expected set is not in proximity of the wireless communications device.
Claims22
A method by a wireless communications device carried by a user for monitoring objects capable of wireless communications, the method comprising:
- detecting an activity performed by the user carrying the wireless communications device;
- determining based on sensing short-range radio signalling from proximately located objects an actual set of objects which are in proximity of the wireless communications device;
- based on the determination that at least one of the objects in an expected set of objects is not in the actual set of objects, notifying the user that at least one of the objects in the expected set is not in proximity of the wireless communications device;
- receiving from the user, in response to notifying the user that at least one of the objects in the expected set is not in proximity of the wireless communications device, an indication that one or more objects in the expected set should be removed from the expected set for the detected activity;
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- updating the expected set of objects associated with the detected activity to remove the user-indicated objects from the expected set which is associated with the detected activity.
A wireless communications device carried by a user for monitoring objects capable of wireless communications, the device comprising:
- a communication interface configured to sense short-range radio signaling from proximately located objects;
- a processor connected to the communication interface;
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- a memory containing instructions executable by the processor to perform operations to:
- detect an activity performed by the user carrying the wireless communications device;
- determine based on sensing short-range radio signalling from proximately located objects an actual set of objects which are in proximity of the wireless communications device;
- based on the determination that at least one of the objects in an expected set of objects is not in the actual set of objects, notify the user that at least one of the objects in the expected set is not in proximity of the wireless communications device;
- receive from the user, in response to notifying the user that at least one of the objects in the expected set is not in proximity of the wireless communications device, an indication that one or more objects in the expected set should be removed from the expected set for the detected activity;
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- update the expected set of objects associated with the detected activity to remove the user-indicated objects from the expected set which is associated with the detected activity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.