Patent ID: 11877159
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A method for assigning wireless beacons to positions within a building, the method comprising:
receiving a computer-implemented floorplan representation of the building;
assigning the wireless beacons to proposed positions within the building by way of the computer-implemented floorplan representation of the building;
based upon the computer-implemented floorplan representation of the building and further based upon the proposed positions within the building of the wireless beacons, simulating coverages of the wireless beacons when the wireless beacons are positioned at the proposed positions;
computing loss values based upon the simulated coverages of the wireless beacons and further based upon the proposed positions for the wireless beacons, wherein the loss values increase as distances between a subset of wireless beacons in the wireless beacons decrease;
simultaneously identifying a number of wireless beacons and final positions of the wireless beacons based upon the computed loss values; and
outputting an indication that the identified number of wireless beacons are to be positioned at the final positions based upon the loss values.