Portal announcing method and system
First Claim
1. A method for providing an automatic announcement to a person seeking a particular portal in a facility that any particular portal is the one sought, comprising the steps of:
- providing said person with a wearable, wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device bearing a unique preset code;
providing said portal with a corresponding wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device bearing said unique code;
responding only to said unique code at the portal for automatically identifying when the unique code of the device of the person which has been received by the portal device is the same as the unique code of the portal device; and
automatically announcing when the personal unique code and portal unique code have been identified as being the same to the person that this portal is the one sought.
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Abstract
A method and system are disclosed for providing an automatic announcement to a person seeking a particular portal in a facility that any particular portal is the one sought. The method comprises the steps of providing the person with a wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device bearing a particular code, providing the portal with a corresponding wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device bearing the particular code, identifying when the code of the device of the person which has been received by the portal device is the same as the code of the portal device and announcing when the personal code and the portal code have been identified as being the same to the person that this portal is the one sought.
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13 Claims
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1. A method for providing an automatic announcement to a person seeking a particular portal in a facility that any particular portal is the one sought, comprising the steps of:
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providing said person with a wearable, wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device bearing a unique preset code;
providing said portal with a corresponding wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device bearing said unique code;
responding only to said unique code at the portal for automatically identifying when the unique code of the device of the person which has been received by the portal device is the same as the unique code of the portal device; and
automatically announcing when the personal unique code and portal unique code have been identified as being the same to the person that this portal is the one sought. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A system for providing an automatic announcement to a person seeking a particular portal in a facility that any particular portal is the one sought comprising:
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a first wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device to be worn by the person and having a unique preset code for identifying that person;
a second wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device attached to said portal and having the same unique code;
said first and second devices directly communicating with each other;
means at the portal responsive only to the unique code at the second device for automatically identifying when the unique code of the first device of the person has been received by said second device; and
means at the portal responsive to the identifying means for automatically announcing to the person that this portal is the one sought. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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