Programmable electronic devices on containers

• US 9,628,434 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2015
• Issued: 04/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Medea Inc.
• Original Assignee: Medea Inc.
• Inventors: Laidlaw, Brandon S., Taylor, Margaret L., Putterman, Jed
• Primary Examiner(s): Fan, Hongmin
• Application Number:
  US14/670,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20150334079A1
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2203/10 Transponders
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/14 of tags , labels, cards, coupons, decorations or the like B65D23/008 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/18 Status alarms G08B21/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/182 Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/00 Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis in musical instruments G10H
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

Systems and methods for sharing resources between multiple processing streams are described. An example method may comprise: receiving data by an electronic display device attached to an object; determining, by the electronic display device, whether the data satisfies a criterion; responsive to determining that the data satisfies the criterion, generating a first message based on the data; wirelessly transmitting the first message to a computing device that is wirelessly connected to the electronic display device; receiving a second message from the computing device; and displaying at least one of the first message or the second message by the electronic display device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving data by an electronic display device attached to an object, the data comprising an audio signal containing voice data recorded by a microphone of the electronic display device;

determining, by the electronic display device, whether the data satisfies a criterion;

responsive to determining that the data satisfies the criterion, generating a first message based on the data;

wirelessly transmitting the first message to a computing device that is wirelessly connected to the electronic display device;

receiving a second message from the computing device; and

displaying, by the electronic display device, text from at least one of the first message or the second message, the text being derived from the audio signal recorded by the microphone of the electronic display device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message comprises at least a portion of the audio signal, and wherein the second message comprises a textual message generated by at least one of the computing device or another computing device based on performing speech to text processing on at least the portion of the audio signal.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

processing the audio signal by the electronic display device;

determining that the audio signal comprises a voice command based on the processing; and

performing an operation responsive to the voice command.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is a container, wherein the data comprises measurement information generated by a sensor of the electronic display device, the measurement information indicating a quantity of a fluid in the container, wherein the criterion comprises a quantity threshold, wherein determining whether the data satisfies the criterion comprises determining whether the quantity of the fluid in the container is below the quantity threshold, and wherein the first message and the second message indicate that the quantity of the fluid is below the quantity threshold.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a mobile device executing an application for communicating with the electronic display device, wherein the data comprises a signal from the computing device, wherein the criterion comprises a proximity threshold, wherein determining whether the data satisfies the criterion comprises determining whether the computing device is within the proximity threshold based on the signal, and wherein the second message comprises an identification of a user associated with the computing device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first message comprises at least one of a welcome message or an advertisement directed to the user, at least one of the welcome message or the advertisement to be displayed on the electronic display device by the application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises inventory information indicating a quantity of objects, wherein the criterion comprises a quantity threshold, wherein determining whether the data satisfies the criterion comprises determining whether the quantity of objects is below the quantity threshold, and wherein the first message comprises a recommendation to order additional objects.

8. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause a processor to:

receive data by an electronic display device attached to an object, the data comprising an audio signal containing voice data recorded by a microphone of the electronic display device;

determine, by the electronic display device, whether the data satisfies a criterion;

generate a first message based on the data in response to determining that the data satisfies the criterion;

wirelessly transmit the first message to a computing device that is wirelessly connected to the electronic display device;

receive a second message from the computing device; and

display, by the electronic display device, text from at least one of the first message or the second message, the text being derived from the audio signal recorded by the microphone of the electronic display device.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the first message comprises at least a portion of the audio signal, and wherein the second message comprises a textual message generated by at least one of the computing device or another computing device based on performing speech to text processing on at least the portion of the audio signal.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the processor further to:

process the audio signal by the electronic display device;

determine that the audio signal comprises a voice command based on the processing; and

perform an operation responsive to the voice command.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the object is a container, wherein the data comprises measurement information generated by a sensor of the electronic display device, the measurement information indicating a quantity of a fluid in the container, wherein the criterion comprises a quantity threshold, wherein determining whether the data satisfies the criterion comprises determining whether the quantity of the fluid in the container is below the quantity threshold, and wherein the first message and the second message indicate that the quantity of the fluid is below the quantity threshold.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the computing device is a mobile device executing an application for communicating with the electronic display device, wherein the data comprises a signal from the computing device, wherein the criterion comprises a proximity threshold, wherein determining whether the data satisfies the criterion comprises determining whether the computing device is within the proximity threshold based on the signal, and wherein the second message comprises an identification of a user associated with the computing device.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the first message comprises at least one of a welcome message or an advertisement directed to the user, at least one of the welcome message or the advertisement to be displayed on the computing device by the application.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the data comprises inventory information indicating a quantity of objects, wherein the criterion comprises a quantity threshold, wherein determining whether the data satisfies the criterion comprises determining whether the quantity of objects is below the quantity threshold, and wherein the first message comprises a recommendation to order additional objects.