APPLIANCES THAT TRIGGER APPLICATIONS ON CONSUMER DEVICES BASED ON USER PROXIMITY TO APPLIANCE

摘要

Example appliances that trigger applications on consumer devices based on user proximity to appliance background are disclosed. A disclosed example system includes an appliance to detect a proximity of a user to the appliance, a remote server to receive a result of the proximity detection from the appliance, and to send an application trigger based on the result, and a user device associated with the user to activate an application on the user device in response to the application trigger received from the remote server.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
an appliance configured to detect a proximity of a person to the appliance by detecting when the person moves into and out of a predetermined range of the appliance and to send appliance state information and proximity information; and a remote server communicatively coupled to the appliance to receive the appliance state information and proximity information from the appliance, and configured to send one of an application trigger or a push notification based on the appliance state information and proximity information; and wherein a user device associated with a user and communicatively coupled to the remote server will receive the one of the application trigger or the push notification and activate an application on the user device or display the push notification.