RANGE CONFIGURABLE BEACON BASED DEVICES FOR SMART INTERACTION AND BROADCAST OF INFORMATION

摘要

A beacon system and method are provided. The system provides schemes and methods whereby range configurable beacons can smartly choose to either broadcast information in their vicinity or allow another device to interact with it at the user's discretion. In some incarnations, a Mobile or Smart Phone devices could deduce information meaningful in context of the applications running on the Mobile or Smart Phone devices, from such beacon based devices with configurable range allowing options for either beacon device operation or user initiated interaction with the beacon device.

主权项

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a plurality of beacons situated in an area, wherein each beacon is situated in a region within the area; a beacon manager, coupled to each of the plurality of beacons, that determines a configuration for the plurality of beacons based on the region in which the plurality of beacons are situated, wherein the configuration for each beacon includes a range of the beacon selected from a first range and a second range; and each beacon receives the configuration from the beacon manager for the beacon so that each beacon has a range configured for the region within the area in which the beacon is situated.