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

Claim 16:
17. A processing device comprising a processing unit, an operating system, a memory, and a beacon transmitter or receiver, the memory comprising at least one pre-installed executable computer program product providing a communication protocol for communication between the processing device and a standard class of bring your own device (BYOD) devices,
the processing device being configured to have a BYOD and a network device exchange a beacon signal comprising the network device identification (ID), when the BYOD and the network device are positioned within the beacon signal range, and having the exchanged beacon signal triggering a BYOD application (app) and a 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 a BYOD unified communications (UC) client adopts a BYOD UC client state,
further comprising the BYOD UC client state being brought equal to the BYOD app state.