System and method to display content on an interactive display surface

• US 9,544,723 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2013
• Issued: 01/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Smart Technologies ULC (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Smart Technologies ULC (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Lewis, Jeff, Xin, Min, Bacchus, Sean, Diaz-Marino, Roberto
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M
• Application Number:
  US14/054,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20140108544A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,183 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A method comprises detecting the location of a portable computing device within a collaboration system based on wireless communications between the portable computing device and a plurality of collaboration sites within the collaboration system; and displaying a map on the portable computing device that identifies the location of the portable computing device within the collaboration system and that specifies a path to a target collaboration site.

Claims

1. An interactive board comprising an interactive display surface and an integrated wireless network device, said wireless network device configured to establish a wireless communication link with a proximate portable computing device and to provide portable computing device locator information to a networked device.

2. The interactive board of claim 1 wherein the wireless network device is a Wi-Fi network device.

3. The interactive board of claims 1 wherein the networked device is a server and wherein the location information comprises received signal strength data derived from wireless signals emitted by the portable computing device.

4. The interactive board of claim 3 wherein the locator information further comprises direction/orientation information received from the portable computing device.

5. The interactive board of claim 4 wherein the direction/orientation information is derived from output of a digital compass and accelerometer of said portable computing device.