SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT TRACKING USING WIRELESS BEACONS

• US 20180206071A1
• Filed: 03/15/2018
• Published: 07/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Estimote Polska Sp. z o.o.
• Original Assignee: Estimote Polska Sp. z o.o.
• Inventors: Kostka, Lukasz, Krzych, Jakub
• Application Number:
  US15/921,844
• Publication Number:
  US 20180206071A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0281 Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0639 Item locations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A method for distributing micro-location-based notifications to a computing device includes receiving a unique identifier associated with a first entity, the unique identifier collected from a wireless beacon by a computing device proximal the wireless beacon, receiving identification of a second entity affiliated with the wireless beacon from the first entity; and in response to positive identification of the second entity as an authorized entity, authorizing delivery of a communication from the second entity, the communication executing on the computing device responsive to receipt of the unique identifier at the computing device.

Claims

1. A method for presenting location-based notifications to a user device, the method comprising, at a remote system:

receiving a first application identifier for a first application, wherein the first application identifier identifies a first application of a set of authorized applications associated with a beacon owner;

storing a first manufacturer beacon identifier for a first wireless beacon controlled by the beacon owner;

associating the first application identifier with the first manufacturer beacon identifier;

receiving a first broadcast beacon identifier from a requesting application executed by the user device, wherein the requesting application is identified by a requesting application identifier;

resolving the first broadcast beacon identifier into a first analysis beacon identifier; and

in response to the first analysis beacon identifier matching the first manufacturer beacon identifier and the requesting application identifier matching the first application identifier, authorizing delivery of a first communication, associated with the beacon owner, to the user device through the requesting application.