Patent ID: 9420423
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: B60R,G01C,G01S,G06Q,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: defining a geofence using a network of one or more beacons, wherein each beacon is a communication device configured to provide a signal detectable by a baseband subsystem of a mobile device located within a communication range of the respective beacon, defining the geofence including: associating the network with a geographic region, wherein the signal from at least one beacon in the network is detectable by a mobile device located in the geographic region; designating an encompassment of the geographic region as the geofence; and associating a task with the geofence as a location based service; advertising the geofence, including broadcasting, by each beacon in the network, an identification signal indicating that the beacon is a component of the network; determining that the mobile device has entered the geofence when the mobile device is in communication with at least one beacon in the network; and transmitting, by a beacon in the network, information on the task and a list of unique identifiers of other beacons in the network, wherein the list is usable by the mobile device to register the unique identifiers with the baseband subsystem for the mobile device to determine whether the mobile device has entered the advertised geofence and whether or not to trigger the mobile device to perform the task, wherein transmitting the information is triggered by the mobile device making a contact with any beacon in the network and is conditioned upon the contact being a first contact between the mobile device and any beacon in the network, and wherein the method is performed by one or more processors.