Patent ID: 9538333
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a plurality of limited range wireless transmitters located at a plurality of positions within a real estate property, each limited range wireless transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit a limited range signal that includes information about the real estate property and information indicative of the position at which the limited range wireless transmitter is located, wherein a plurality of the limited range signals include different information about the real estate property, and wherein the position-indicative information in each limited range signal comprises data indicative of an elevation or floor for the limited range wireless transmitter that transmitted that limited range signal; a mobile computing device, the mobile computing device configured to execute a mobile application, the mobile application configured to (1) determine data indicative of a position for the mobile computing device within the real estate property, (2) process a plurality of limited range signals wirelessly received by the mobile computing device from a plurality of the limited range wireless transmitters, (3) resolve which of the limited range signals were transmitted from a limited range wireless transmitter having a correspondence in elevation or floor with the determined position for the mobile computing device based on the elevation-indicative or floor-indicative data within a plurality of the processed limited range signals, (4) select a limited range signal from among the plurality of received limited range signals based at least in part on (i) relative signal strengths between the received limited range signals, and (ii) the resolved correspondence in elevation or floor such that the selected limited range signal was transmitted from one of the limited range transmitters sharing the correspondence in elevation or floor with the mobile computing device's determined position, (5) select and extract floor-specific information about the real estate property from the selected limited range signal such that the selected and extracted floor-specific information is specific to the floor that relates to the determined position for the mobile computing device, and (6) based on the extracted floor-specific information about the real estate property, generate data for a visual display about the real estate property corresponding to the selected limited range signal for consumption by a user of the mobile computing device through a display screen of the mobile computing device.