Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-frequency user tracking system
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Application No.: US15273091Application Date: 2016-09-22
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Publication No.: US10321275B1Publication Date: 2019-06-11
- Inventor: Nikolai Orlov , Nathan Pius O'Neill , Jeremy Samuel De Bonet
- Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Lindauer Law, PLLC
- Main IPC: H04W24/00
- IPC: H04W24/00 ; H04W4/04 ; H04W4/021

Abstract:
A facility is equipped with floor tiles. Each tile is equipped with transmitters that transmit on specific frequencies. A particular set of frequencies identifies a particular floor tile and a particular segment on the floor tile. A user electromagnetically couples to one or more antennas of the tile, acting as a signal path for the signals on the particular set of frequencies. A receiver detects these signals, and the information about the frequencies detected and relative signal strength may be used to determine a location of the user within the facility. Receivers in the floor tiles allow a first tile to transmit its set of frequencies and a second tile to receive the set of frequencies and determine where the user has stepped from. By concatenating these steps a path of the user may be determined. Receivers in shelves facilitate disambiguation of one user from another when interacting with items.
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