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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2016
Crestron Electronics, Inc., Rockleigh, NJ (US);
Fred Bargetzi, Upper Saddle River, NJ (US);
Daniel Jackson, Norwood, NJ (US);
Brian Donlan, Edgewater, NJ (US);
Adam Hanson, Warwick, NY (US);
Ara Seferian, River Vale, NJ (US);
Toine Leerentveld, Keyport, NJ (US);
Crestron Electronics, Inc., Rockleigh, NJ (US);
Abstract
A conference system leveraging radio frequency communication standards for initiating a conference and controlling conference room presets. The system comprises a processor, a memory, a data storage device, a display, and at least one communication interface configured to enable communications with a remote server and one or more RF beacons, wherein the one or more RF beacons are configured for periodically broadcasting a beacon ID. The system further comprises a program of instructions stored in the memory and executable in the processor, the program of instructions being operable to: receive from at least one of the one or more RF beacons the beacon ID, estimate a distance to the at least one of the one or more RF beacons according to a detected signal strength of the RF beacon broadcast, determine a location based on the distance to the at least one of the one or more RF beacons, accept information defining a conference type from a plurality of conference types, each conference type being associated with preset resources, display at least one preset parameter associated with the conference type, receive preset information including a start time, an end time, and one or more settings for a preset resource, automatically associate the preset information with at least one preset resource based on the determined location and the conference type, and send to the associated preset resources at least one control command comprising the one or more settings in response to the start time.