Patent ID: 9608999
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G01S,G06Q,H04W

Claim:
1. A secure beacon-based system comprising: a plurality of beacons, wherein each beacon of the plurality of beacons, is located in a sub-location of a geographic area, and each beacon includes hardware comprising dynamic beacon identifier (ID) generation logic, a data storage, and a short-distance transmitter, a mobile application executed by a mobile device, wherein the mobile application receives the beacon ID of a beacon of the plurality of beacons via a short-distance communication interface of the mobile device, and the mobile application: wherein the application server receives the request via a network, locally computes the beacon ID comprising at least the dynamic portion based on the at least one beacon ID calculation function, compares the beacon ID from the request with the locally computed beacon ID, and determines whether the mobile device is located near the beacon based on the comparison.