Systems and methods for message sharing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9100799-B1
Application number	US-201313916708-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jun 13, 2013
Priority date	Jun 13, 2013
Publication date	Aug 4, 2015
Grant date	Aug 4, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods for broadcasting messages carried on one or more beacon signals are disclosed. A message sharing device may identify a message to be broadcast and may transmit the message to a base station to generate a beacon signal or generate the beacon signal itself based at least in part on the message. The beacon signal may include an indication that the beacon signal carries a message. The beacon signal may be broadcast and may be received by one or more message receiving devices. In some cases, the message may include a link to content accessible via one or more networks, such as the Internet.

First claim

That which is claimed:

1. An electronic device, comprising:
at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions;
at least one processor that accesses the at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor executes the computer-executable instructions to:
receive a first beacon signal comprising one or more data fields including a service set identification (SSID) field;
determine, based at least in part on the one or more data fields of the first beacon sign…

Assignees

• Amazon Tech Inc

Inventors

• Thiagarajan Arvind
• Butler David George
• Price Andrew David
• Chang Shih-Chun
• Zhu Yi

Classifications

• H04W4/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic