Patent ID: 9641964
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G01S,G06Q,G08B,H01Q,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for real time location of at least one leaf node device, comprising: taking at least one of signal strength information, proximity information and phase angle information collected via Bluetooth Low Energy communication signals from the leaf node device, wherein the information from the leaf node device is collected by at least two collection devices wherein each collection device is from the group consisting of reader nodes and point of interest devices; delivering the collected information to a processing engine that is remote from the leaf node device; processing the collected information in real time to determine the location of the leaf node device; and further comprising calculating an average location for a leaf node device based on two or more determinations of location for the leaf node device, wherein each of the determinations of location is based on data from a different one of the at least two collection devices.