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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2014
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Sunil Kumar Garg, Seattle, WA (US);
David George Butler, San Jose, CA (US);
Vijay Rangarajan, Seattle, WA (US);
Arvind Thiagarajan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for sharing content with a group of devices based on proximity. A sharing device transmits an SSID and an audio signal containing a key. The audio signal may be controlled to limit the area in which the audio signal may be received or heard by a receiving device. For example, the audio signal may be controlled to limit receipt to a device at a same table (a few feet away from the first device), in a same room, etc. This allows the sharer to selectively share content with one or more receiving devices without sharing with all devices in proximity to the first device.