US 11,816,631 B2
Voting based proximity detection and ranging
Sandeep Suresh, Bangalore (IN); Abhishek Mathur, Bangalore (IN); and Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Beema, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Hand Held Products, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/249,950.
Claims priority of application No. 202111004866 (IN), filed on Feb. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0245568 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G06K 7/10366 (2013.01); G06K 7/10891 (2013.01); G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); G06K 2007/10534 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tag comprising:
a memory; and
a processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
identify a group of tags within a predefined range of the tag,
in response to the tag being elected as a leader based on voting by the group of tags within the predefined range, initiate transmission of packets to each tag in the group of tags identified within the predefined range;
in response to the transmission of the packets, receive response packets from each tag in the group of tags;
in response to receiving the response packets from the group of tags, determine tag distances between the tag and each tag in the group of tags; and
in response to determining that at least one tag distance between the tag and a tag from the group of tags is less than a predefined distance, generate an alarm or notification corresponding to the tag from the group of tags.