ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,104, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Dynamic beacon discovery" was invented by Srikar Potta (San Diego), Franklin Mathew Zhang (Irvine, Calif.), Shruti Makharia (Los Gatos, Calif.), Basak Oyman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Uttam Bhat (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that improves beacon discovery by enabling a device to determine a dynamic threshold and connect to a gateway that satisfies the dynamic threshold. For example, the device may iteratively scan through available channels for a first duration of time, detecting beacon signals and storing corresponding signal stre...