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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2018
Phillip Lucas Williams, Glendale, CA (US);
Scott Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Phillip Lucas Williams, Glendale, CA (US);
Scott Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present storage management system, described in detail in the following specification and accompanying drawings, includes an active (self-powered) Bluetooth® BLE transceiver beacon (hereinafter referred to as 'beacon'), which, according to a preferred embodiment has a thin flat form factor with a self-adhesive-backing. A beacon is secured to each storage box and continuously transmits an 'advertisement packet' to the surrounding area. A user's smart device (e.g., a smart phone) picks up the different signals sent by each beacon and is able to communicate with select ones. A software application allows a user to catalog items to be stored so that each is effectively “linked” to a particular storage box. At a later time, any of the catalogued items may be selected and the corresponding storage container in which the item resides is instructed to notify its location within the storage area using light and sound. According to a second embodiment of the invention, a user may tap any box within the storage area to have the contents of that box be displayed on the user's smart device.