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LOW ENERGY BEACON ENCODING

  • US 20130065584A1
  • Filed: 09/12/2011
  • Published: 03/14/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for transmitting a beacon message, the method comprising:

  • generating, with a beacon generation device, at least one beacon message, wherein the at least one beacon message is defined by a beacon message format, the beacon message format comprising one or more type octets, the one or more type octets comprising a main type octet comprising a first bit followed by seven type bits, the seven type bits indicating an advertising type for the beacon message, the advertising type being one of a set of predetermined advertising types that indicate location-based information associated with a location of the beacon generation device, the first bit being either;

    a “

    0”

    , to indicate that the beacon message has no typed payload and that no subsequent type octets are present in the beacon message;

    ora “

    1”

    , to indicate that a subsequent one or more octets of the beacon message comprise a typed payload for the beacon message, the typed payload comprising a payload length field followed by payload data field, the payload length field being the length in octets of the typed payload; and

    transmitting, with the beacon generation device, the at least one beacon message using a low-energy wireless communication protocol to a transmission area within a transmission range of the beacon generation device for reception by one or more mobile computing devices located in the transmission area.

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