Patent ID: 9326226
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method implemented by a mobile device of resolving information about an entity associated with a beacon, the method comprising: the mobile device receiving a beacon signal, the beacon signal including a particular beacon identifier; the mobile device sending the particular beacon identifier to a beacon resolution service, wherein beacon resolution service comprises a database of a plurality of different beacon identifiers, including the particular beacon identifier, that are each registered with one or more different entities by the beacon resolution service and that also correspond to one or more service categories; the mobile device receiving entity information from the beacon resolution service identifying one or more particular entities associated with the particular beacon identifier; the mobile device receiving service information identifying one or more service categories corresponding with the particular beacon identifier by at least one of the database of the beacon resolution service or by a different entity that the beacon resolution service; the mobile device filtering at least the received service information to identify one or more applications from among a plurality of beacon aware applications that are currently available on the mobile device that are interested in one or more of that registered service categories corresponding with the particular beacon identifier; and the mobile device providing information identifying the one or more particular entities or service categories to the one or more interested applications.