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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Lukas M. Marti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shannon M. Ma, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques of category-based fence are described. A category-based fence can correspond to a group of signal sources instead of a point location fixed to latitude and longitude coordinates. The group of signal sources can represent a category of entities, e.g., a particular business chain. The signal sources can be distributed to multiple discrete locations. A category-based fence associated with the group, accordingly, can correspond to multiple locations instead of a single point location and a radius. Each signal source in the group can be associated with a category identifier unique to the group and uniform among signal sources in the group. The category identifier can be programmed into each signal source. A mobile device can enter the category-based fence by entering any of the discrete locations when the mobile device detects the signal identifier. The mobile device can then execute an application program associated with the category-based fence.