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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2016
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Daniel Altin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steve Kroll, San Francisco, CA (US);
Afero, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for selecting an appropriate advertising interval for an IoT device. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: Internet of Things (IoT) device data collection circuitry/logic to collect IoT device usage data and/or other IoT device data; advertising interval determination circuitry/logic to determine an appropriate advertising interval based on the IoT device usage data and/or other IoT device data; and advertising interval selection circuitry/logic to implement the appropriate advertising interval determined by the advertising interval determination circuitry/logic.