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

Claim 8:
9. A system for joining a network device to at least one bring your own device (BYOD), the network device and the BYOD each having 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,
if the BYOD and the network device are positioned within the beacon signal range, there is an exchange of a beacon signal between the network device and the BYOD, wherein the beacon signal comprises a network device ID,
the exchanged beacon signal triggering the second 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.