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Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 11, 2014
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);

Kent W. Hughes, Oakland, CA (US);

Kumar Sanjeev, San Ramon, CA (US);

Mingxing S. Li, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01); H04W 4/008 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mobile device may perform actions based on sensing a wireless beacons. The action to take, for a particular beacon, may be determined based on a query to a remote database or server. For example, in one implementation, a method may include detecting a wireless beacon that is in proximity to the mobile device; querying, based on the beacon identifier, a remote computing device for attribute information relating to the wireless beacon; and determining, based on the received attribute information, one or more actions to perform by the mobile device.


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