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

Claim 13:
14. A wireless communication unit for communicating with a beacon device, the wireless communication unit comprising:
a first receiver configured to receive on a second technology and process a Bluetooth™ low energy, BLE, advertising message comprising at least a beacon indicator from the beacon device, wherein the beacon indicator indicates to the wireless communication unit that content is available from a remote server using a first wireless technology or wireline technology;
a transmitter configured to transmit a first message to the beacon device on the second technology in response to the received 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™;
wherein the first receiver is configured to receive a second BLE message from the beacon device only in response to the first message and the beacon device having 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;
a controller operably coupled to the first receiver and configured to process the received second BLE message wherein 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 same content is to be downloaded directly from the beacon device using the third WiFi™ technology; and
a second receiver that supports the first wireless technology or wireline technology;
wherein the controller is configured to associate itself with an access point, AP, of the beacon device in response to the second BLE message and obtain the same content direct from the AP using the third WiFi™ technology.