Patent ID: 11929789
Assignee: THE TONE KNOWS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 2:
3. A tone-emitting device comprising:
a tone-emitting speaker for emitting an inaudible tone;
a tone-determining computing device communicatively coupled to the tone- emitting speaker and comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores logic that, when executed by the tone-determining computing device, causes the tone-determining computing device to perform at least the following:
receive data related to a characteristic of an object, wherein the object includes a visitor in a medical facility and wherein the characteristic includes an identity of the visitor, a location of where the visitor is to be, facility access for the visitor, and medical details of the visitor;
encode a first inaudible tone that includes a first pair of non-naturally occurring frequencies and represents at least a portion of the data;
encode a second inaudible tone that includes a second pair of non-naturally occurring frequencies and represents data related to of the facility access for the visitor;
send first instructions to the tone-emitting speaker for outputting the first inaudible tone, wherein the first inaudible tone is sent in response to receiving a user input to broadcast the medical data of the visitor and is received by a communication device, wherein the communication device must authenticate to receive access to a portion of the data for which the communication device or user of the communication device is authorized to receive, and wherein upon authenticating, the communication device decodes the portion of the data for which the communication device or user of the communication device is authorized to receive, wherein in response to the medical professional not being able to authenticate, denying access to the medical data to the medical professional and providing a message to the medical professional that access to the medical data is denied; and
send second instructions to a tone-emitting speaker of the tone-emitting device for outputting the second inaudible tone, wherein the second inaudible tone is received by a stationary device that determines whether, based on the characteristic, the visitor is granted access to a portion of the facility, and wherein the second inaudible tone changes, based on a location of the visitor.