Granted Patent B1

US 12,349,232 · App. 19/080,728 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Inventors: Micha Anthenor Benoliel (San Francisco, CA); Kyude Karyan (San Jose, CA)

Assignee: Noodle Technology Inc.

H04W8/005H04W4/02H04W4/022H04W4/20H04W4/80H04W64/003H04W72/20H04W88/08

Abstract

Claims (39)

1. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory, the one or more processors being configured to execute operations to cause the system to perform operations comprising:

receive a beacon from a first intermediate device via a first network, wherein the beacon was received by the first intermediate device from an endpoint device via a second network;

identify a characteristic of the beacon, the characteristic of the beacon including an identifier of the endpoint device;

use the identifier of the endpoint device to perform a lookup in a data record to identify a particular server that is associated with the beacon;

select the particular server based on a result of the lookup in the data record;

send a beacon message to the server via a third network, the beacon message including at least one of the beacon, or information pertaining to the beacon;

receive, from the server, a response message pertaining to the beacon message; and

process the response message.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein

the beacon includes data indicative of a geographical location of the endpoint device.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein when identifying the characteristic of the beacon, the system is to scan the beacon to identify the data indicative of the geographical location of the endpoint device and the identifier of the endpoint device.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein when sending the beacon message to the server via the third network, the system is to send the identifier of the endpoint device to the server.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first network is a longer-range network as compared to the second network.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the response message is addressed to a second intermediate device, wherein the response message includes an indication that the endpoint device has been found, wherein the response message includes at least one instruction, executable by the second intermediate device, to display a location of the endpoint device on an electronic map, wherein when processing the response message, the system is to send the response message to the second intermediate device.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the response message includes an instruction executable by the endpoint device, wherein when processing the response message, the system is to send the response message to the endpoint device.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein when sending the response message to the endpoint device, the system is to:

identify an intermediate device that is currently communicatively coupled to the endpoint device, wherein the intermediate device includes the first intermediate device or a second intermediate device; and

send the response message to the identified intermediate device with an instruction to forward the response message to the endpoint device.

9. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory, the one or more processors being configured to execute operations to cause the system to perform operations comprising:

detect movement of a first intermediate device from a first geographic location to a second geographic location;

responsive to the first intermediate device moving to the second geographic location, receive a beacon from an endpoint device, the beacon including an identifier of the endpoint device;

identify a relay server to send a beacon message, the beacon message including the identifier of the endpoint device and at least one of the beacon, or information pertaining to the beacon;

select the relay server using the beacon message; and

send the beacon message with the identifier of the endpoint device to the relay server.

10. The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising to listen for the beacon by periodically scanning for beacons via a first network.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the first intermediate device is configured to receive the beacon from the endpoint device via the first network.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the beacon message is sent from the endpoint device to the relay server in response to a determination that the first intermediate device is connected to a second network, wherein when sending the beacon message from the endpoint device to the relay server, the system is to send the beacon message from the endpoint device to the relay server via the second network.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein when identifying the relay server to send the beacon message, the system is to:

determine a geographic location of the first intermediate device; and

identify the relay server from a set of relay servers, wherein the relay server is the closest relay server to the geographic location of the first intermediate device from the set of relay servers.

14. The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising to receive, from the relay server, a response message pertaining to the beacon message.

15. The system of claim 14 , the operations further comprising to send the response message to the endpoint device.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein when receiving the response message pertaining to the beacon message, the system is to receive the response message at a second intermediate device.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein when sending the response message to the endpoint device, the system is to send the response message to the endpoint device via the second intermediate device.

18. The system of claim 15 , wherein when sending the response message to the endpoint device, the system is to determine that the response message includes an instruction to send the response message to the endpoint device.

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