Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Paul Baril

Tomas Russ

Prasenjit Roy

Chibing Liu

Alan David Brav

Jeff Li

Pavan Reddy

Bin Wu

In one embodiment, an apparatus () is presented that detects wireless signals from external devices () that uniquely identify each of the external devices, records, in memory (), information about the external devices without access to an external database, and compares information from the external devices to determine a relative location of the wearable device without using additional, power-hungry position location functionality if there is a threshold match in the compared information. In some embodiments, the invention uses the determined relative location to trigger an action at another device. The invention, using self-contained functionality, enables improvements in same location or home location determination accuracy, memory conservation, and power consumption.

Wireless location recognition for wearable device

In one embodiment, an apparatus is presented that detects wireless signals from external devices that uniquely identify each of the external devices, records, in memory, information about the external devices without access to an external database, and compares information from the external devices to determine a relative location of the wearable device without using additional, power-hungry position location functionality if there is a threshold match in the compared information. In some embodiments, the invention uses the determined relative location to trigger an action at another device. The invention, using self-contained functionality, enables improvements in same location or home location determination accuracy, memory conservation, and power consumption.

A mobile button device () comprises a call button (), a local wireless link () to a communicator (), and a cellular connection (). The mobile button device is programmed to perform an alarm reporting method including: originating an alarm by sending the alarm via the local wireless link to the communicator for alarm reporting by the communicator; after sending the alarm to the communicator, monitoring alarm reporting status via the local wireless link to the communicator; and reporting the alarm via the cellular connection in response to the monitoring determining that the communicator failed to report the alarm. For example, the monitoring may include polling the communicator via the local wireless link and the monitoring determines that the communicator failed to report the alarm if the polling indicates the communicator is unavailable () or a timeout condition () is reached.

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