Power saving intelligent locator

• US 10,132,916 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2016
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intelligent Locations, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intelligent Locations, LLC
• Inventors: Nedelcu, Bogdan R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dsouza, Adolf
• Application Number:
  US15/165,576
• Publication Number:
  US 20160350564A1
• Time in Patent Office: 908 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0018 Transmission from mobile station to base station
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0284 Relative positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Systems and methods of a power saving intelligent locator system for locating a user within a space, the system includes providing a tag cloud having tags that communicate tag data with aggregators. The tag cloud and aggregators located within the space form a meshed network, the aggregators communicate data to a computer in communication with a cloud-based network. A user smart device with a mobile application wirelessly communicates with an internet system in communication with the cloud-based network. Receiving by the computer, information about the user smart device entering the meshed network by wireless tags positioned within the space. Information is obtained by the tags during a recognition process by wirelessly transmitting messages between the wireless tags to aggregators, and then wirelessly transmitting information from the aggregators to the computer, the computer communicates with the cloud-based network, the wireless tags transition from a sleep state to an active state.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

creating, by communication between a plurality of radio emitting devices in a meshed network with each radio emitting device comprising a processor and transceiver, a geo-fence within a space, each radio emitting device capable of communicating with neighboring radio emitting devices in the plurality and capable of communicating with aggregators in communication with a central server computer over a network; and

determining, by a subset of the plurality of radio emitting devices, a location of a user computing device executing a user application for the space when the user computing device is moved past the geo-fence and into the space, the determined location relative to the subset of the radio emitting devices, each radio emitting device in the subset transitioning from a sleep state to an active state based on wireless transmissions from the subset of radio emitting devices when the user computing device moves within a predetermined distance from the subset of the radio emitting devices.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a tag cloud comprising the plurality of radio emitting devices.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user application provides product information about a product to the user computing device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the product information is provided when the user computing device moves within a predetermined distance from the product.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the product information comprises navigation information to the product.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user application provides environment information within the space to the user computing device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the active state of the radio emitting device comprises increasing transmitting power and transmitting frequency levels.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the sleep state of the radio emitting device comprises decreasing transmitting power and transmitting frequency levels.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the user application automatically checks a user of the user computing device into the space when the user computing device moves past the geo-fence.

10. A radio emitting device comprising:

a processor;

a transceiver for communicating with other radio emitting devices and for communicating with an aggregator in communication with a central server computer over a network; and

a non-transitory storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising;

radio emitting device communicating logic executed by the processor for communicating with a plurality of radio emitting devices in a meshed network to create a geo-fence within a space and for facilitating determination of a location of a user computing device by the radio emitting device and a subset of the plurality of radio emitting devices, the user computing device executing a user application for the space, the facilitating determination of the location occurring when the user computing device is moved past the geo-fence and into the space, the determined location relative to the radio emitting device, the radio emitting device transitioning from a sleep state to an active state based on wireless transmissions from the subset of radio emitting devices when the user computing device moves within a predetermined distance from the subset of the radio emitting devices.

11. The radio emitting device of claim 10, wherein the user application provides product information about a product to the user computing device.

12. The radio emitting device of claim 11, wherein the product information is provided when the user computing device moves within a predetermined distance from the product.

13. The radio emitting device of claim 11, wherein the product information comprises navigation information to the product.

14. The radio emitting device of claim 10, wherein the user application provides environment information within the space to the user computing device.

15. The radio emitting device of claim 10, further comprising increasing transmitting power and transmitting frequency levels when in the active state.

16. The radio emitting device of claim 10, further comprising decreasing transmitting power and transmitting frequency levels when in the sleep state.

17. The radio emitting device of claim 10, wherein the user application automatically checks a user of the user computing device into the space when the user computing device moves past the geo-fence.

18. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium tangibly storing thereon computer instructions for execution by a processor of a radio emitting device, the computer instructions comprising:

communicating with a plurality of radio emitting devices in a meshed network to create a geo-fence within a space and for facilitating determination of a location of a user computing device by the radio emitting device and a subset of the plurality of radio emitting devices, the user computing device executing a user application for the space, the facilitating determination of the location occurring when the user computing device is moved past the geo-fence and into the space, the determined location relative to the radio emitting device, the radio emitting device transitioning from a sleep state to an active state based on wireless transmissions from the subset of radio emitting devices when the user computing device moves within a predetermined distance from the subset of the radio emitting devices.

19. The medium of claim 18, wherein the user application provides product information about a product to the user computing device.

20. The medium of claim 18, wherein the user application automatically checks a user of the user computing device into the space when the user computing device moves past the geo-fence.