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

Claim 12:
13. A method for a beacon device to communicate with at least one discovering device, the method comprising, at the beacon device:
obtaining and storing content, received from a remote server using a first wireless technology or wireline technology, in memory in the beacon device or external memory coupled to a port of the beacon device;
transmitting a Bluetooth™ low energy, BLE, advertising message comprising at least a beacon indicator to the at least one discovering device on a second technology wherein the beacon indicator indicates to the at least one discovering device content that is available from the remote server and that the beacon device has obtained and stored locally the same content;
receiving a first message from the at least one discovering device on the second technology in response to the transmitted 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;
processing the received first message and identifying whether the content stored locally in the memory or external memory is the same as content that the at least one discovering device would have obtained from the remote server using legacy functionality; and
transmitting a second BLE message to the at least one discovering device only in response to the received first message and identifying 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, where 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 at least one discovering device is to download the same content directly from the beacon device using the third WiFi™ technology.