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

Claim 17:
18. A method for a wireless communication unit to communicate with a beacon device, the method comprising, at the wireless communication unit:
receiving on a second technology and processing 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;
transmitting 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™;
receiving 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;
processing 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;
associating the wireless communication unit with an access point, AP, of the beacon device in response to the second BLE message; and
obtaining the same content direct from the AP using a transceiver that supports the third WiFi™ technology.