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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2022
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arnold Feldman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Various arrangements for using a positioning tag to facilitate control of a smart home device are presented herein. A communication sessions can be established between a control device and a positioning tag via a first device-to-device communication protocol. In response to a trigger event indicative of a user desiring to control the separate smart home device being detected, a positioning enablement message can be transmitted to the positioning tag via the first device-to-device communication protocol. A signal used for positioning is transmitted by the positioning tag using a second device-to-device communication protocol. Based on the received signal via the second device-to-device communication protocol, an interface that controls the smart home device is activated.