Granted Patent B2

US 12,256,282 · App. 17/139,114 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Inventor: Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (Frisco, TX)

Assignee: Tesla Laboratories, LLC

H04W4/021G06F16/9554G06Q10/02G06Q30/0201G06Q30/0241H04W4/21H04W4/33H04L67/306H04L67/52H04M3/42357

Abstract

Claims (47)

1. A method for interacting with audience members in an event, wherein the event has a finite number of participating attendees selected from attendees of the event, comprising the steps of:

for each participating attendee, creating a unique combined ID (UID) on a mobile wireless device (MWD) by the steps of:

detecting a presence of the MWD by a beacon device;

generating by the beacon device a signal configured for detection by the MWD;

launching an application stored on the MWD in response to a detection of the signal;

inputting to the MWD an identifier;

creating the combined UID by combining the input identifier with a UID timestamp corresponding to a time of creation of the UID, wherein the UID comprises an identifier portion that includes the input identifier and a UID timestamp portion so as to distinguish two different UIDs having a duplicate identifier portion; and

accepting and storing the combined UID in a database;

receiving with a server, on a wireless channel, communications from the MWD of each participating attendee; and

registering the combined UID of each participating attendee at a venue of the event.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifier is a fixed location associated with the venue.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the fixed location is a defined seat in the venue having a seat identifier as the fixed location.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein registering each respective combined UID comprises recognizing each respective MWD at the respective fixed location within the venue.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein recognizing each respective MWD comprises a scan of the MWD in a vicinity of the respective fixed location.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein registering each respective combined UID comprises responding to a request for registration by transmitting the respective combined UID to the server over the wireless channel.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

generating at the server a visual query;

displaying on a physical display at the event the visual query, wherein the visual query relates to a plurality of visual messages;

displaying on the MWD of each participating attendee response indicators;

receiving at the server from each participating attendee a response, each response resulting from one of the participating attendees selecting one of the response indicators, to the visual query over the wireless channel;

storing in the database on the server the received responses in association with the displayed visual query;

associating the respective received responses with the respective combined UIDs;

creating a query ID (QID) associated with the displayed visual query; and

creating respective response time stamps indicating respective times at which the respective received responses were received by the server.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

creating a combined UID data record for each combined UID, each combined UID data record including:

the respective UID,

the QID,

the respective received response, and

the respective response time stamp.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

creating a QID data record for the QID, the QID data record including:

the QID;

each of the respective received responses,

each respective UID, and

each respective response time stamp;

performing statistical analysis on the QID data record;

selecting, based on the statistical analysis of the QID record, one of the visual messages from the plurality of visual messages; and

displaying on the physical display at the event the selected visual message.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising associating each respective received response with statistical information related to an attendee classification.

11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising assigning each respective combined UID to a statistical category based on the respective received response and the displayed query.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the combined UID data record also includes statistical information that is related to an attendee classification and that is based on the received response.

13. The method of claim 7 , wherein the response indicators comprise at least one of:

alphabetic symbols;

numeric symbols; and

symbols of differing colors.

14. The method of claim 7 , wherein receiving at the server the responses includes receiving the responses within a defined time window.

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