Data synthesis using near field communication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10498398-B2
Application number	US-201615290596-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 11, 2016
Priority date	Oct 12, 2015
Publication date	Dec 3, 2019
Grant date	Dec 3, 2019

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for synthesizing and displaying distributed data using Near Field Communication (NFC). A system includes a plurality of NFC-enabled mobile devices, a NFC base transmitter generating a Radio Frequency (RF) field, and a central computing device in electronic communication with the NFC base transmitter. Each NFC-enabled mobile device has a NFC payload encoding a unique user identifier that corresponds to a quantity of user data associated with a mobile application on that mobile device. The NFC base transmitter is configured to the NFC payload(s) of mobile devices being within a certain range of the RF field. The system is programmed to generate a plurality of user interface elements based on the quantities of user data, and instruct a display device to render a visual representation of each user interface element at display coordinates determined based on the quantities of user data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for synthesizing and displaying distributed data using Near Field Communication (NFC) comprising:
a plurality of NFC-enabled mobile devices, each NFC-enabled mobile device having a NFC payload encoding a unique user identifier associated therewith, each one of the unique user identifiers corresponding to a quantity of user data associated with a mobile application resident on the associated one of the NFC-enabled mobile devices, the user data relating to tasks currently assigned to a user of the NFC-enabled mobile device having the unique user identifier associated therewith;
a NFC base transmitter generating a Radio Frequency (RF) field, the NFC base transmitter configured to detect an associated one of the NFC payloads in response to one or more of the NFC-enabled mobile devices being within a range of the RF field, the NFC base transmitter further configured to at least one of transmit additional user data to the detected NFC-enabled mobile device for updating the quantity of user data or receive the quantity of user data associated with the mobile application from the NFC-enabled mobile device in response to detection of the NFC payload; and
a central computing device in electronic communication with the NFC base transmitter, the central computing device including a processor and a memory, the memory storing each quantity of user data received from each NFC-enabled mobile device and instructions that, when executed by the processor:
programmatically generate a plurality of user interface elements based on the quantities of user data stored in the memory received from the plurality of NFC-enabled mobile devices, and
instruct a display device to render a visual representation of each user interface element at display coordinates determined based on the quantities of user data,
wherein each quantity of user data includes user-assigned task related data and the user-assigned task related data includes a status identifier, a completion percentage, and a predicted completion date of the tasks currently assigned to the user.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein programmatically generating the plurality of user interface elements further comprises updating at least one previously created user interface element.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein programmatically generating the plurality of user interface elements further comprises creating a new user interface element.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the user interface elements is visually represented as a virtual sticky note.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user-assigned task-related data includes task relationship data.

6. The system of claim 1 , further comprising at least one additional NFC base transmitter in electronic communication with the central computing device.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the at least one additional NFC base transmitter is located in a different geographical location than the NFC base transmitter.

8. The system of claim 1 , further comprising at least one additional display device, in electronic communication with the central computing device.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the at least one additional display device is located in a different geographical location than the display device.

10. A method for synthesizing and displaying distributed data using Near Field Communication (NFC) comprising:
detecting, by an NFC base transmitter, a NFC payload associated with one of a plurality of NFC-enabled mobile devices in response to the associated one of the NFC-enabled mobile devices being within a range of a Radio Frequency (RF) field generated by the NFC base transmitter, the NFC payload encoding a unique user identifier corresponding to a quantity of user data associated with a mobile application resident on the associated one of the NFC-enabled mobile devices, the user data relating to tasks currently assigned to a user of the NFC-enabled mobile device having the unique user identifier associated therewith;
at least one of transmitting, by the NFC base transmitter, additional user data to the detected NFC-enabled mobile device for updating the quantity of user data or receiving, by the NFC base transmitter, the quantity of user data associated with the mobile application resident on the NFC-enabled mobile device in response to detection of the NFC payload;
receiving, at a central computing device in electronic communication with the NFC base transmitter, the received quantity of user data, the central computing device including a processor and a memory, the memory storing a plurality of received quantities of user data associated with a plurality of mobile applications resident on the plurality of NFC-enabled mobile devices;
programmatically generating, by the processor, a plurality of user interface elements based on the plurality of received quantities of user data stored in the memory received from the plurality of NFC-enabled mobile devices; and
instructing, by the processor, a display device to render a visual representation of each user interface element at display coordinates determined based on the plurality of received quantities of user data, wherein each quantity of user data includes user-assigned task related data and the user-assigned task related data includes a status identifier, a completion percentage, and a predicted completion date of the tasks currently assigned to the user.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein programmatically generating the plurality of user interface elements further comprises updating at least one previously created user interface element.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein programmatically generating the plurality of user interface elements further comprises creating a new user interface element.

13. The method of claim 10 , further comprising modifying, in response to receiving a user input at a user interface of at least one of the plurality of the NFC-enabled mobile devices, at least a portion of the quantity of user data.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein the user-assigned task-related data includes task relationship data.

15. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
detecting, by at least one additional NFC base transmitter, an additional NFC payload associated with an additional one of the plurality of NFC-enabled mobile devices in response to the associated additional one of the NFC-enabled mobile devices being within a range of an additional Radio Frequency (RF) field generated by the NFC base transmitter, the additional NFC payload encoding an additional unique user identifier corresponding to an additional quantity of user data associated with an additional mobile application resident on the associated additional one of the NFC-enabled mobile devices;
at least one of transmitting, by the additional NFC base transmitter, additional user data to the detected additional one of the plurality of NFC-enabled mobile devices for updating the additional quantity of user data or receiving, by the additional NFC base transmitter, the additional quantity of user data associated with the additional mobile application resident on the additional NFC-enabled mobile device in response to detection of the additional NFC payload;
receiving, at the central computing device in electronic communication with the additional NFC base transmitter, the received additional quantity of user data.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the at least one additional NFC base transmitter is located in a different geographical location than the NFC base transmitter.

17. The method of claim 10 , further comprisin

Assignees

• Walmart Apollo Llc

Inventors

• White Richard Andrew
• Lewis Ricky L
• Johnson Christopher Soames
• Clark Jimmie Russell

Classifications

• H04M1/72451 Primary

  according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications · CPC title

• H04M2250/04

  including near field communication means, e.g. RFID · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• H04M1/72566

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B5/0031 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic