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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Bahram Bahram Pour, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method that includes acts for resolving information about an entity associated with a beacon is illustrated. The method includes receiving a beacon signal. The beacon signal includes an identifier. The identifier is sent to a beacon resolution service. The method further includes receiving information identifying an entity associated with the beacon signal. Service information identifying one or more service categories for the identifier is also received. The method includes identifying one or more applications from among a plurality of beacon aware applications that are interested in one or more of the service categories sending information identifying the entity to the one or more applications.