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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2016
Laundry 2.0, Llc, Tampa, FL (US);
Benjamin Todd Belveal, Tampa, FL (US);
Dexter S. Weiss, Austin, TX (US);
William Justin Barbino, Naperville, IL (US);
Charles Walden, Austin, TX (US);
Laundry 2.0, LLC, Tampa, FL (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for providing access to and use of laundry machines that are managed and controlled in a laundry service. A transceiver of a mobile device may receive a beacon signal emitted from a laundry machine, the beacon signal identifying the laundry machine. Based on a received strength of the beacon signal the mobile device may determine that it is within a threshold distance of the laundry machine, and the mobile device may communicate a request for use of the laundry machine during a predetermined period of time (e.g., one or more cycles). In some cases, the mobile device may present a user interface that enables a user to request use of laundry machine(s), access information describing a status of laundry in laundry machine(s), request additional service(s), and so forth.