Patent ID: 11910276
Assignee: DEEYOOK LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 20:
21. A communication system, comprising:
a plurality of wireless tags, which are configured to be fixed to respective items, each tag having a respective media access control (MAC) address that is defined for communication over a wireless local area network (WLAN);
a wireless transceiver, which is configured to identify the respective MAC address of a tag that is fixed to an item of interest and, independently of receiving any probe request frame from the transceiver, to transmit a probe response frame addressed to the identified MAC address over the WLAN, and to receive an acknowledgment of the probe response frame from the tag; and
a processor, which is configured to ascertain a location of the item of interest responsively to the received acknowledgment.