Automating actions within a phone network based upon scanned wireless signals
AssigneeNewaer Inc.
InventorDavid K. Mathews
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Abstract
A method for automating actions within a network includes receiving at least one wireless signal from at least one wireless network device; determining identifying information associated with the at least one wireless signal; determining a scanned wireless fingerprint associated based upon the identifying information; matching the scanned wireless fingerprint to a stored wireless fingerprint; and initiating an action in response to matching of the scanned wireless fingerprint to the stored wireless fingerprint.
Claims14
A method for providing control in a given environment about a given mobile unit operated by a user, which environment includes one or more broadcast units for broadcasting information that includes one or more attributes associated with the operation of each of the broadcast units in the given environment, comprising the steps of:
- receiving at the given mobile unit broadcast information from at least one of the one or more of the broadcast units;
- providing a database of fingerprints at a remote node on a network, each fingerprint comprising a representation of the received attributes of broadcast units within the given environment or other environment in which the given mobile unit or other mobile units was previously present and had received broadcast information from any broadcast units for recording thereof in the database;
- transmitting the received broadcast information to the remote node;
- comparing at the remote node the attributes associated with the received broadcast information from the at least one or more broadcast units within the given environment with the stored fingerprints;
- determining at the remote node if the attributes associated with the received broadcast information from the one or more broadcast units within the given environment match any of the stored fingerprints;
- providing a stored set of predetermined actions at the remote node related to one or more of the stored fingerprints which such actions represent an action that a previous user had associated with being in the presence of the associated broadcast units;
- selecting at the remote node a related one or more of the actions in response to the step of determining a match to the attributes of the one or more broadcast units within the given environment;
- if a match was not determined, the allowing user of the given mobile unit to associate one of the predetermined stored set of actions with the unmatched fingerprint as the selected action;
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- executing the selected action.
A method for providing control in a given environment about a given mobile unit operated by a user, which environment includes one or more broadcast units for broadcasting information that includes one or more attributes associated with the operation of each of the broadcast units in the given environment, comprising the steps of:
- providing a database of fingerprints at a remote node on a network, each fingerprint comprising a representation of the received attributes of broadcast units external to the given mobile unit within the given environment or other environment in which the given mobile unit or other mobile units was previously present and had received broadcast information from any broadcast units in the presence of such given mobile unit or the mobile unit for recording thereof in the database;
- capturing at the given mobile unit broadcast information from at least one of the one or more of the broadcast units external to the given mobile unit representing a captured fingerprint;
- transmitting the captured attributes to the remote node and converting such to a captured fingerprint;
- comparing the attributes associated with the captured fingerprint with the stored fingerprints;
- determining at the remote node if the attributes associated with the received broadcast information from the one or more broadcast units within the given environment converted into the captured fingerprint match any of the stored fingerprints;
- providing, at the remote node, a stored set of user associated predetermined actions related to one or more of the stored fingerprints;
- selecting, as a selected action, a related one or more of the actions in response to the step of determining a best match to the captured fingerprint if such match exists and, if such match does not exist, creating with user input from the given mobile unit a new user defined association to the captured fingerprint as the selected action;
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- executing the selected action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.