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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2021
Nxp B.v., San Jose, CA (US);
Mehmet Ufuk Buyuksahin, Graz, AT;
Wolfgang Eber, Graz, AT;
Dorian Haslinger, Nestelbach bei Graz, AT;
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An infrastructure-controller () for an infrastructure (), wherein the infrastructure has a plurality of Bluetooth Low Energy, 'BLE', nodes () associated with it. The infrastructure-controller () is configured to: identify one of the plurality of BLE nodes as a current-BLE-node (), and activate the current-BLE-node () for communication with a key () using BLE signals; determine a communication-quality-indicator for each of the plurality of BLE nodes (), that represents the quality of communication with the key (); based on the communication-quality-indicators, identify one of the plurality of BLE nodes as a next-BLE-node (); and provide connection-information to the next-BLE-node () using out-of-band signalling (). The infrastructure-controller () can then deactivate the current-BLE-node (); and activate the next-BLE-node () for continued communication with the key () using BLE signals.