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Prioritizing beacon messages for mobile devices

  • US 10,278,197 B2
  • Filed: 08/11/2016
  • Issued: 04/30/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, at a mobile device, beacon messages from multiple beacon devices over short-range communication links, the beacon devices being within a vicinity of an establishment, wherein the beacon messages respectively comprise beacon identifiers, wherein the beacon messages respectively provide message contents, each of the message contents being associated with the establishment;

    assigning flags to the beacon messages, each flag indicating whether a corresponding beacon message is a new message or a duplicate of a previously received beacon message;

    determining, at the mobile device, priorities of the beacon messages based on the message contents and based on a message content based priority rule set, wherein the message contents are separate from the beacon identifiers, and wherein determining the priorities comprises determining the priorities based on the flags;

    selecting, at the mobile device, a beacon message of the beacon messages based on the priorities to produce a selected beacon message; and

    presenting the selected beacon message through the mobile device.

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