Patent ID: 9659490
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G08B,G08G,G09B,H04W

Claim:
1. A computer program product for a crossing aid on a mobile device, the computer program product comprising: one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to determine, by a first computer processor, a unique ID associated with a crossing signal, wherein determining the unique ID associated with the crossing signal includes scanning a machine-readable tag of the crossing signal via near field communication; program instructions to search, by the first computer processor, for a wireless access point (WAP) having the unique ID; program instructions to determine, by the first computer processor, whether the WAP having the unique ID is found, wherein determining whether the WAP having the unique ID is found includes determining a service set identifier (SSID) of the WAP includes the unique ID extracted from a machine-readable tag of the crossing signal; responsive to determining that the WAP having the unique ID is found, program instructions to determine, by the first computer processor, haptic feedback; and program instructions to initiate, by the first computer processor, the haptic feedback on the mobile device to aid in crossing.