Patent ID: 9386553
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: transmitting, by a first gateway, a first beacon signal containing a first location type associated with the first gateway; transmitting, by a second gateway, a second beacon signal containing a second location type associated with the second gateway; receiving, at a wireless communication device, the first beacon signal; receiving, at the wireless communication device, the second beacon signal; determining, at the wireless communication device, that the second location type contained in the second beacon signal is preferred as compared to the first location type contained in the first beacon signal; registering, by the wireless communications device based on the determination that the second location type is preferred, with the second gateway; communicating a registration event message indicating the wireless communications device's registration with the second gateway to an application running at a remote computing device, the registration event message including the second location type; selecting, at a remote computing device based on the second location type included in the received registration event message, a profile maintained in association with the second location type; communicating, from the remote computing device to the wireless communications device, an instruction to engage the selected profile; engaging, by the wireless communications device in response to the received communication from the remote computing device, the selected profile.