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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Sangxia Huang, Lund, SE;
Andrej Petef, Lund, SE;
Assignee:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 4/23 (2018.01); H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 4/23 (2018.02); H04W 28/06 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02);
Abstract
An observer device () listens for advertising messages from broadcast devices () in an environment, transmits scan request messages to broadcast devices, and subsequently receives scan response messages. The observer device () can connect to a broadcast device () and configure the broadcast device () to a scanning mode. The broadcast device () selected for scanning listens for advertising messages from other broadcast devices (). The broadcast device () relays information related to these other broadcast devices () back to the observer device ().