Patent ID: 11889580
Assignee: VEEA INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A beacon device for communicating with at least one discovering device, the beacon device comprising:
a transceiver comprising a first transmitter and a first receiver that is configured to obtain content from a remote server using a first wireless technology or a wireline technology;
memory, or a port for coupling to external memory, wherein the memory or external memory is configured to store the content obtained from the remote server;
a second transmitter configured to transmit a Bluetooth™ low energy, BLE, advertising message comprising at least a beacon indicator to the at least one discovering device on a second technology wherein the beacon indicator indicates to the at least one discovering device content that is available from the remote server and that the beacon device has obtained and stored locally the same content;
a second receiver configured to receive a first message from the at least one discovering device on the second technology in response to the transmitted BLE advertising message comprising the beacon indicator, wherein the first message requests information relating to a third technology to use to obtain locally the same content direct from the beacon device wherein the third technology is WiFi™;
a controller operably coupled to the second receiver and the second transmitter and configured to process the received first message and configured to identify whether the content stored locally in the memory or external memory is the same as content that the at least one discovering device would have obtained from the remote server using legacy functionality; and
wherein the second transmitter transmits a second BLE message on the second technology to the at least one discovering device only in response to the received first message and that the controller has identified that the content stored locally in the memory or external memory is the same as the content that the at least one discovering device would have obtained from the remote server using legacy functionality, where the second BLE message is indicative of the same content being stored locally to the beacon device and the second BLE message comprises details of how the at least one discovering device is to download the same content directly from the beacon device using the third WiFi™ technology.