Patent ID: 11916977
Assignee: BARCO N.V.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for joining a network device to at least one bring your own device (BYOD), the network device and the BYOD each comprising a beacon transmitter configured to periodically or continuously transmit a beacon signal, the beacon signal having a range, or a beacon receiver configured to receive the beacon signal within its range, so that they can exchange the beacon signal, the network device comprising an identification (ID) and a network device application (app), and the BYOD comprising a BYOD app and a BYOD unified communications (UC) client, the method comprising the steps of:
bringing the BYOD and the network device within the beacon signal range so that the BYOD and the network device exchange a beacon signal comprising the network device ID,
the exchanged beacon signal triggering the BYOD app and the network device app to configure a data channel between them, and when the channel is configured, the BYOD app adopts a BYOD app state and the BYOD UC client adopts a BYOD UC client state,
further comprising the BYOD UC client state being brought equal to the BYOD app state.