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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Lukas M. Marti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shannon M. Ma, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Mayor, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Augustin Prats, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian J. Tucker, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher J. Edmonds, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joakim Linde, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pejman Lotfali Kazemi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A proximity fence can be a location-agnostic fence defined by signal sources having no geographic location information. The proximity fence can correspond to a group of signal sources instead of a point location fixed to latitude and longitude coordinates. A signal source can be a radio frequency (RF) transmitter broadcasting a beacon signal. The beacon signal can include a payload that includes an identifier indicating a category to which the signal source belongs, and one or more labels indicating one or more subcategories to which the signal source belongs. The proximity fence defined by the group of signal sources can trigger different functions of application programs associated with the proximity fence on a mobile device, when the mobile device moves within the proximity fence and enters and exits different parts of the proximity fence corresponding to the different subcategories.