Utilizing wakeup receivers for device communication

摘要

Computing devices can utilize various low power wakeup transceivers in order to control functional states of various components of those devices. Each transceiver can broadcast a beacon including appropriate information, which can be received by any other device with a transceiver that is within a propagation range of the beacon. A transceiver receiving the beacon can cause the received beacon to be analyzed by appropriate decision logic, which can determine any appropriate functionality to be activated or otherwise contacted in response to the beacon. In at least some embodiments, the beacon can cause another type of communication channel to be activated to establish communications with a device from which the beacon was received. In this way, the communications channel can be established without having to leave the channel active or manually activate that channel.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, sending, using a transceiver, a first beacon from a first computing device; detecting, using the transceiver, a second beacon sent from a second computing device in response to the first beacon; determine a type of communications channel associated with the second beacon based at least in part upon information encoded in the second beacon, the type of communications channel having a communication protocol for communication with the second computing device; activating at least one communications component on the first computing device for the type of communications channel, the at least one communications component consuming more power than the transceiver; and establishing communications with the second computing device over the type of communications channel.