Determining a communication language for internet of things devices

• US 9,998,334 B1
• Filed: 08/17/2017
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Danale, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Chengfu Yu
• Inventors: Yu, Chengfu
• Primary Examiner(s): King, John B
• Application Number:
  US15/680,146
• Time in Patent Office: 299 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0876 Aspects of the degree of configuration automation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

A device is disclosed. The device includes a network module; where the network module is capable of communicatively coupling to one or more network access points. The device further includes one or more processors, a machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which, when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: receiving one or more broadcast signals from the one or more network access points, wherein the broadcast signal comprises a network discovery beacon frame, extracting an information from the beacon frame of each broadcast signal, determining a language of communication based on the extracted information; and assigning the language of communication as a first option of language of communication of the device.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a network module;

the network module capable of communicatively coupling to one or more network access points;

one or more processors;

a machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which, when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving one or more broadcast signals from the one or more network access points, wherein the broadcast signal comprises a network discovery beacon frame;

extracting an information from the beacon frame of each broadcast signal;

determining a language of communication based on the extracted information; and

assigning the language of communication as a first option of language of communication of the device, wherein determining the first option of language of communication comprises meeting a first calculated threshold; and

communicating voice messages utilizing the first option of language of communication, wherein failure to receive a response to the communicating within a predetermined period of time utilizing the first option of language of communication results in assigning a second option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the information is country information within the beacon frame, and wherein when the information contains no country information, the language of communication is assigned to a default predetermined language of communication.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein failure to meet the first calculated threshold and meeting a second calculated threshold results in assigning the second option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein failure to meet the first calculated threshold, failure to meet the second calculated threshold and meeting a third calculated threshold results in assigning a third option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein failure to respond to communicating within a predetermined period of time utilizing the second option of language of communication results in assigning the third option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein the first calculated threshold, the second calculated threshold and the third calculated threshold are determined from the information and the number of one or more network access points.

7. A method comprising:

receiving one or more broadcast signals, from one or more network access points, wherein the broadcast signal comprises a network discovery beacon frame;

extracting an information from the beacon frame of each broadcast signal;

determining a language of communication based on the extracted information; and

assigning the language of communication as a first option of language of communication of a device, wherein determining the first option of language of communication comprises meeting a first calculated threshold; and

communicating voice messages utilizing the first option of language of communication, wherein failure to receive a response to the communicating within a predetermined period of time utilizing the first option of language of communication results in assigning a second option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the information is country information within the beacon frame, and wherein when the information contains no country information the language of communication is assigned to a default predetermined language of communication.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein failure to meet the first calculated threshold and meeting a second calculated threshold results in assigning the second option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein failure to meet the first calculated threshold, failure to meet the second calculated threshold and meeting a third calculated threshold results in assigning a third option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein failure to respond to a communication within a predetermined period of time utilizing the second option of language of communication results in assigning the third option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first calculated threshold, the second calculated threshold and the third calculated threshold are determined from the information and the number of one or more network access points.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which, when executed by one or more processors of a processing system cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving one or more broadcast signals from one or more network access points, wherein the broadcast signal comprises a network discovery beacon frame;

extracting an information from the beacon frame of each broadcast signal;

determining a language of communication based on the extracted information; and

assigning the language of communication as a first option of language of communication of a device, wherein determining the first option of language of communication comprises meeting a first calculated threshold; and

communicating voice messages utilizing the first option of language of communication, wherein failure to receive a response to the communicating within a predetermined period of time utilizing the first option of language of communication results in assigning a second option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the information is country information within the beacon frame, and wherein when the information contains no country information the language of communication is assigned to a default predetermined language of communication.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein failure to meet the first calculated threshold and meeting a second calculated threshold results in assigning the second option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable, medium of claim 15, wherein failure to meet the first calculated threshold, failure to meet the second calculated threshold and meeting a third calculated threshold results in assigning a third option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein failure to respond to a communication within a predetermined period of time utilizing the second option of language of communication results in assigning the third option of language of communication as the language of communication of the device.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the first calculated threshold, the second calculated threshold and the third calculated threshold are determined from the information and the number of one or more network access points.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein failure to respond to a communication within a predetermined period of time of utilizing the third option of language of communication results in assigning a default predetermined language of communication.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the first option of language of communication, the second option of language of communication or the third option of language of communication is a first official language of communication associated with the country information of a corresponding network access point.

21. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 20, wherein failure to respond to a communication within a predetermined period of time of utilizing first official language of communication results in assigning the first option of language of communication a second official language of communication associated with the country information.