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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015

Filed:

May. 19, 2014
Applicant:

Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);

Inventors:

Harout Jarchafjian, Glendale, CA (US);

Jeffrey Voris, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Benjamin F. Christen, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Robert P. Michel, Toluca Lake, CA (US);

Assignee:

Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/005 (2013.01); G01S 5/0289 (2013.01); H04W 52/0209 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a system including a mobile device configured to transmit a first advertisement to a listening device and a repeater device, receive a data advertisement from the listening device in response to transmitting the first advertisement to the listening device, the data advertisement including a time difference between the listening device receiving the first advertisement and the listening device receiving a second advertisement transmitted from the repeater device in response to transmitting the first advertisement from the mobile device to the repeater device, and determine a location of the mobile device using the data advertisement including the time difference. In the system, the listening device and the repeater device may each include Bluetooth low energy devices.


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