Devices and network architecture for improved beacon-mediated data context sensing

Abstract

Architectures, devices, systems and methods incorporating beacon transmissions that comply with a defined communications protocol having a digital identifier value, in which the transmissions incorporate frames, sometimes termed a major value and a minor value, in which the transmissions incorporate sensor data encoded on the fly into one or more of the bitstrings of the protocol by a bitwise substitution process. Sensor data may include temperature, light intensity, smoke, voltage, sound, motion, displacement, acceleration, humidity, pressure, radiation, button-press stimulus event, compass direction, proximity, or other stimuli or sensor data, for example, and is more generally termed “contextual content”. According to the relationships and permissions established by a receiving device and/or the system operator, look-up results are processed to configure notifications tied to the contextual content of the broadcast. Notifications to a receiving device and/or system are configured according to contextual data broadcast by the beacon. Beacons having the improved communications protocol may be deployed individually or in networks. The beacon broadcast may be accessed by naive devices, but bit overloading may also be used to prevent unauthorized systems from correctly interpreting the data. Thus the architectures, devices, systems and methods of the invention enable a beacon having nested levels of interaction dependent on context established by the beacon and the relationship established with a compatible received.

1 . A computer memory device having encoded therein a digital instruction set, wherein said digital instruction set, when installed and executed by a computing circuit of a multi-featured smart device, is configured to cause the smart device to:
 (a) listen for a radio message having a bitstring containing a radio signal identifier and one or more overloaded bits in the bitstring, the overloaded bits encoding a sensor data payload;   (b) associate the radio signal identifier with a service accessible by a smart device, thereby defining a qualified radio message; and,   (c) trigger execution of a preprogrammed feature of a smart device according to the sensor data payload in the qualified radio message.