Beacon transmission

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12401969-B2
Application number	US-202017995951-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 17, 2020
Priority date	Apr 17, 2020
Publication date	Aug 26, 2025
Grant date	Aug 26, 2025

Abstract

Examples of electronic devices are described herein. In some examples, an electronic device includes a transmitter. In some examples, the transmitter may transmit a first beacon and a second beacon. In some examples, the first beacon may be associated with a first account. In some examples, the second beacon may be associated with a second account. In some examples, the first account includes a different beacon control privilege relative to the second account.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic device, comprising:
a transmitter to:
transmit a first tracking signal to track a target device, wherein the first tracking signal is associated with a first user account; and
transmit a second tracking signal to track the target device, wherein the second tracking signal is associated with a second user account, wherein the first user account comprises a different tracking signal control privilege relative to the second user account.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising a processor to enable or disable the second tracking signal based on a received signal associated with the first user account.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the first tracking signal comprises a first device identifier and the second tracking signal comprises a second device identifier that is different from the first device identifier.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein first tracking signal access is separated from second tracking signal access.

5. The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein the first tracking signal is encoded with a first encoding that is different from a second encoding of the second tracking signal to separate the first tracking signal access from the second tracking signal access.

6. The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein the first tracking signal includes encryption to separate the first tracking signal access from the second tracking signal access.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the second user account comprises a different sounding privilege relative to the first user account.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the first user account comprises a different locking privilege or a different wiping privilege relative to the second user account.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the first user account comprises a different input and output instruction modification privilege relative to the second user account.

10. A tracking device, comprising:
a memory to store first user account information and second user account information;
a processor in electronic communication with the memory, wherein the processor is to:
determine enablement of a tracking signal transmission associated with a second user account based on the first user account information; and
upon determining the enablement of the second user account, send a command to a transmitter to transmit a tracking signal associated with the second user account to track a target device; and
send a command to the transmitter to transmit a tracking signal associated with a first user account to track the target device, wherein the first user account comprises a different tracking signal control privilege relative to the second user account.

11. The tracking device of claim 10 , wherein the tracking device is embedded in or coupled to a host device.

12. The tracking device of claim 10 , wherein the first user account has a different wiping privilege relative to the second user account, and wherein the processor is to initiate a wiping operation of a host memory in response to a received command associated with the first user account.

13. A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium comprising instructions when executed cause a processor of an electronic device to:
generate first tracking signal information to track a target device associated with a first user account, wherein the first user account comprises second tracking signal permission information; and
generate second tracking signal information to track the target device associated with a second user account based on the second tracking signal permission information, wherein the first user account comprises a different tracking signal control privilege relative to the second user account.

14. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the first tracking signal information comprises a first device identifier and the second tracking signal information comprises a different second device identifier.

15. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the first tracking signal information indicates an input and output instruction version.

Assignees

• Hewlett Packard Development Co

Inventors

• Lagnado Isaac
• Stancil Charles J

Classifications

• H04W12/06

  Authentication · 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

• H04W12/08

  Access security · CPC title

• G01S1/68

  Marker, boundary, call-sign, or like beacons transmitting signals not carrying directional information · CPC title

• H04W4/029 Primary

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title