US 12,347,240 B2
Method and system for using data packet beaconing to determine compliance with protocols
Mark Adam Bullock, Wooster, OH (US)
Assigned to GOJO Industries, Inc., Akron, OH (US)
Filed by GOJO Industries, Inc., Akron, OH (US)
Filed on Aug. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/878,711.
Application 17/878,711 is a continuation of application No. 16/581,585, filed on Sep. 24, 2019, granted, now 11,403,888.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/735,435, filed on Sep. 24, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0366729 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G07C 1/02 (2006.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01)
CPC G07C 1/02 (2013.01) [H04L 67/535 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a beacon configured to transmit a plurality of data packets based upon one or more time-rates, wherein each data packet of the plurality of data packets is transmitted by the beacon at a time-rate corresponding to a frequency associated with a recipient of the data packet and comprise an identification number associated with the beacon and a counter value associated with a time of transmission of the data packet such that the same beacon transmits multiple data packets at different power levels and different time-rates corresponding to different frequencies associated with reception by different devices, the transmitting the plurality of data packets comprising:
transmitting, by the beacon at a first time and at a first time-rate corresponding a first frequency, a first data packet comprising the identification number associated with the beacon and a first counter value associated with the first time, the first time-rate corresponding the first frequency configured to enable reception of the first data packet by a first device; and
transmitting, by the same beacon that transmitted the first data packet and at a second time and at a second time-rate corresponding a second frequency different than the first frequency, a second data packet comprising the identification number associated with the beacon and a second counter value associated with the second time, the second time-rate corresponding the second frequency configured to enable reception of the second data packet by a second device different than the first device.