US 11,733,345 B2
Location-based functionality using acoustic location determination techniques
Terje Aasen, Indian Rocks Beach, FL (US); and Wilfred Edwin Booij, Oslo (NO)
Assigned to Sonitor Technologies AS, Oslo (NO)
Appl. No. 16/964,849
Filed by Sonitor Technologies AS, Oslo (NO)
PCT Filed Jan. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/050577
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 24, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/145879, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 1, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/622,448, filed on Jan. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0063526 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. G01S 5/30 (2006.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04M 1/72457 (2021.01); H04B 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01S 5/30 (2013.01) [H04B 11/00 (2013.01); H04M 1/72457 (2021.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of providing location-based functionality by a mobile computing device using acoustic signals, the computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a mobile computing device, acoustic signals via air from two or more transmitting devices associated with a real-time locating system, the acoustic signals including a respective unique encoded identification for each of the two or more transmitting devices;
determining, by the mobile computing device, a location of the mobile computing device based at least in part on decoding the respective unique encoded identification in the received acoustic signals;
determining, by the mobile computing device, one or more actions to perform based at least in part on a control scheme associated with the real-time locating system and the determined location; and
performing, by the mobile computing device, the one or more actions.