Invention Grant
- Patent Title: RFID contextual location determination and sensing
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Application No.: US14843238Application Date: 2015-09-02
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Publication No.: US09615335B2Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Scott Debates , Douglas A Lautner
- Applicant: Motorola Mobility LLC
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
- Current Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Main IPC: H04W64/00
- IPC: H04W64/00 ; H04W52/28 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W52/02 ; G06K7/10

Abstract:
In embodiments of RFID-based location determination for antenna power adjustment, a mobile device includes a RFID reader to interrogate and communicate with RFID tags. A control module can utilize a learning algorithm to determine a current location of the mobile device based on physical locations associated with the RFID tags, and an antenna power of a wireless transceiver can be adjusted for a signal strength of a wireless network based on the current location of the mobile device. The learning algorithm can maintain a database that includes information about particular locations or rooms within a residence, the signal strength of wireless networks at the locations, and identifiers of the RFID tags. The learning algorithm can learn context of a user's location with the mobile device to improve utilization of the antenna power of the wireless transceiver, and conserve battery power of the mobile device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170064647A1 RFID Contextual Location Determination and Sensing Public/Granted day:2017-03-02
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