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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2017
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Sashikanth Chandrasekaran, Belmont, CA (US);
Michal Palczewski, San Jose, CA (US);
Varouj Chitilian, Hillsborough, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A user enters a location with a user device. A beacon device broadcasts a first beacon device code comprising a hardware identifier via a local wireless network at the location. A service application of the user device receives the first beacon device hardware identifier, logs a check-in status of the user, and transmits the check-in status to a service provider system. The beacon device generates, after a predetermined period of time, a subsequent beacon device code comprising a random number to broadcast at the location via the local wireless network. In response to receiving the subsequent beacon device code broadcast by the beacon device, the user device logs and transmits a subsequent check in status to the service provider system via the network. The service provider system provides services to the user device or another device at the location in accordance with the check-in status of the user device.