IP Library Granted Patent US 9,544,723
Granted Patent B2
US 9,544,723 · App. 14/054,510 · Granted Jan 10, 2017

System and method to display content on an interactive display surface

Inventors: Jeff Lewis (Calgary, CA); Min Xin (Calgary, CA); Sean Bacchus (Calgary, CA); Roberto Diaz-Marino (Calgary, CA)
Assignee: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
H04W4/02H04W4/026
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Patent No.
US 9,544,723
App. No.
14/054,510
Granted
Jan 10, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method comprises detecting the location of a portable computing device within a collaboration system based on wireless communications between the portable computing device and a plurality of collaboration sites within the collaboration system; and displaying a map on the portable computing device that identifies the location of the portable computing device within the collaboration system and that specifies a path to a target collaboration site.

Claims (5)

1. An interactive board comprising an interactive display surface and an integrated wireless network device, said wireless network device configured to establish a wireless communication link with a proximate portable computing device and to provide portable computing device locator information to a networked device.

2. The interactive board of claim 1 wherein the wireless network device is a Wi-Fi network device.

3. The interactive board of claims 1 wherein the networked device is a server and wherein the location information comprises received signal strength data derived from wireless signals emitted by the portable computing device.

4. The interactive board of claim 3 wherein the locator information further comprises direction/orientation information received from the portable computing device.

5. The interactive board of claim 4 wherein the direction/orientation information is derived from output of a digital compass and accelerometer of said portable computing device.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 22, 2016
From: LEWIS, JEFF; BACCHUS, SEAN
To: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
Reel/Frame 040400/0498 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 5, 2015
From: XIN, MIN; DIAZ-MARINO, ROBERTO
To: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
Reel/Frame 036262/0780 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61714214 · Oct 15, 2012
Related Publication 20140108544A1 · Apr 17, 2014