Method and system for forwarding communications
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorAlicia Marie Russell
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Abstract
A method includes receiving an identification value from a wireless beacon at a mobile device when the mobile device is within a detection area of the wireless beacon. The method also includes determining whether the wireless beacon is a recognized wireless beacon based on the identification value using a look up table accessible to the mobile device. An alternate communication address is selected from the look up table based on the identification value received from the wireless beacon, and communications addressed to the mobile device are redirected to the alternate communication address.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving an identification value from a wireless beacon device at a mobile device when the mobile device is within a detection area of the wireless beacon device, wherein the identification value identifies the wireless beacon device;
- determining, at the mobile device, whether the wireless beacon device is a recognized wireless beacon device based on the identification value using a look up table accessible to the mobile device;
- selecting, at the mobile device, an alternate communication address that is associated with a second communication device from the look up table based on the identification value received from the wireless beacon device, wherein the second communication device is different from the wireless beacon device;
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- in response to selecting the alternate communication address at the mobile device, causing communications addressed to the mobile device to be redirected to the second communication device via the alternate communication address.
A system, comprising:
- a wireless communication device comprising a first receiver to facilitate two-way voice communication using a first wireless protocol, a second receiver to facilitate monitoring of wireless information using a second wireless protocol, and a communications interface, the wireless communication device comprising:
- a first control module to provide a first request to forward communications to an alternate communication device when an identifier received by the second receiver from a wireless beacon device is recognized based on the identifier matching an entry in a look up table accessible to the wireless communication device, wherein the identifier identifies the wireless beacon device and wherein a network address of the alternate communication device is determined based on the identifier.
A wireless beacon device, comprising:
- a wireless communication interface configured to wirelessly transmit a unique identification of the wireless beacon device to a mobile device located within a wireless coverage area of the wireless beacon device, wherein, when the wireless beacon device is recognized by the mobile device based on the unique identification and based on a look up table accessible to the mobile device, the mobile device selects an alternate network address corresponding to a second communication device based on the unique identification and forwards external communications to the second communication device via the alternate network address while the mobile device is within the wireless coverage area of the wireless beacon device, and wherein the unique identifier identifies the wireless beacon device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.