Patent ID: 11877212
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method for determining approximate location of at least one discoverable Bluetooth device, in a system comprising:
a plurality of Bluetooth Low Energy devices linked by a first network, each adapted, in response to a received activation command received via the first network, to recognize the at least one discoverable Bluetooth device, measure the signal strength received from the at least one discoverable Bluetooth devices, and transmit information indicative of the signal strength received from the at least one discoverable Bluetooth devices via the first network; and
at least one memory storing information indicative of the relative locations of each of the plurality of Bluetooth Low Energy devices;
the method comprising the steps of:
retrieving the information indicative of the relative locations of each of the plurality of Bluetooth Low Energy devices from the at least one memory;
transmitting an activation command to the plurality of Bluetooth Low Energy devices;
receiving from each of the plurality of Bluetooth Low Energy devices, via the first network, the transmitted information indicative of the signal strength received from each of the discoverable Bluetooth devices; and
calculating the location of the at least one discoverable Bluetooth device based, at least in part, upon the signal strength received from each of the discoverable Bluetooth devices and the information indicative of the relative locations of each of the plurality of Bluetooth Low Energy devices.