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User experience enhancement using proximity awareness

  • US 10,587,480 B2
  • Filed: 11/14/2017
  • Issued: 03/10/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An administrator node for multi-node mesh network, the administrator node comprising:

  • a wireless receiver to receive broadcast signals from a plurality of broadcast nodes of the mesh network, each of the broadcast signals comprising a node ID identifying a source broadcast node of the broadcast signals;

    logic to determine a relative signal strength indicator for each received node ID and to rank received node IDs by an associated relative signal strength indicator;

    logic to perform a lookup of each node ID to determine a node type and preset node controls for each source broadcast node; and

    logic to determine if each source broadcast node has previously paired with the administrator node, and on condition that a particular source broadcast node has not previously paired with the administrator node, enable a user of the administrator node to pair the particular source broadcast node with the administrator node, and on condition that the particular source broadcast node has previously paired with the administrator node and has not been added to an existing node group, prompting the user of the administrator node with a list of proximate ungrouped nodes of the mesh network ordered by the ranked node IDs.

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