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Systems and methods for beacon device fleet management

  • US 10,191,137 B2
  • Filed: 12/12/2017
  • Issued: 01/29/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method to enable beacon device fleet management, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by a fleet management system, a plurality of observation reports respectively from a plurality of mobile computing devices, each observation report identifying at least one of a plurality of beacon devices observed by a reporting mobile computing device and describing at least a time at which the reporting mobile computing device observed the identified at least one beacon device;

    analyzing, by the fleet management system, at least a portion of the plurality of observation reports that are associated with a first beacon device to determine a detection interval for the first beacon device, the detection interval comprising an amount of time that is based at least in part on a historical observation frequency at which the first beacon device has been observed by the mobile computing devices;

    comparing, by the fleet management system, the detection interval of the first beacon device to a difference between a current time and a timestamp of a most recent observation report associated with the first beacon device; and

    determining, by the fleet management system, a detection status of the first beacon device based at least in part on the comparison of the detection interval of the first beacon device to the difference between the current time and the timestamp of the most recent observation report associated with the first beacon device, wherein the detection status is indicative of a current operation status of the first beacon device.

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