Patent ID: 9693193
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a merchant device, wireless signals from consumer devices that are in communicable range of the merchant device, wherein the wireless signals each include a unique identifier associated with one of the consumer devices; generating signal strength data that includes at least one signal strength value and a duration of the at least one signal strength value associated with the unique identifier of each of the wireless signals; storing the signal strength data in a data storage device; accessing the signal strength data from the data storage device; analyzing the signal strength data to determine average durations for signal strength values of each of the wireless signals; determining a threshold signal strength value based, at least in part, on the analyzing of the average durations for the signal strength values of each of the wireless signals; determining a consumer device is present within a physical area when a wireless signal from the consumer device satisfies the threshold signal strength value; and determining a second consumer device is outside the physical area when a second wireless signal from the second consumer device fails to satisfy the threshold signal strength value.