Patents by Inventor Igor V. Grebnev

Igor V. Grebnev has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Event-triggered control of beacon broadcasts
    Patent number: 10104642
    Abstract: Broadcasts from beacon devices each of which is disposed in a known different physical location within a venue are controlled. Scheduling information for events scheduled to take place at the venue may be collected from calendar management sources and analyzed. Notification of an emergent event associated with the venue or its geographic location may also be received from emergent event notification sources and analyzed. The result of these analyses and the knowledge of the physical location of each of the beacon devices are used to generate a set of broadcast rules for each of the beacon devices, where these rules specify one or more beacon signals to be periodically broadcast by the beacon device and the timing by which these signals are to be broadcast. For each of the beacon devices, the set of broadcast rules for the beacon device is downloaded to the beacon device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David J. Brennan, Nicholas H. Wrem, David Michael Gray, Hubert Van Hoof, Igor V. Grebnev
  • EVENT-TRIGGERED CONTROL OF BEACON BROADCASTS
    Publication number: 20170280420
    Abstract: Broadcasts from beacon devices each of which is disposed in a known different physical location within a venue are controlled. Scheduling information for events scheduled to take place at the venue may be collected from calendar management sources and analyzed. Notification of an emergent event associated with the venue or its geographic location may also be received from emergent event notification sources and analyzed. The result of these analyses and the knowledge of the physical location of each of the beacon devices are used to generate a set of broadcast rules for each of the beacon devices, where these rules specify one or more beacon signals to be periodically broadcast by the beacon device and the timing by which these signals are to be broadcast. For each of the beacon devices, the set of broadcast rules for the beacon device is downloaded to the beacon device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: David J. Brennan, Nicholas H. Wrem, David Michael Gray, Hubert Van Hoof, Igor V. Grebnev