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Make Existing Physical Mailboxes Smart!

[Category : - Appliances and houseware- Advertising methods- Security and alarms]
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This invention enables existing physical mailboxes to become smart devices, providing notification to the user whenever mail is added or removed. It even notifies when additional mail is added! The method has been tested in various climates across the US running off two AA batteries for over two years! If you can place a sticker you can install Mailnote!

Be the first to market with a internet of things mailbox product! This method solves the hard problem of detecting mail within a receptacle. Simple put, the methods works by detecting the acoustic signature change within a receptacle. For example, a metal-walled room is very noisy compared to a metal-walled room with paper added to one of the walls.

In addition to a user device, meta data could be used to combine both physical and electronic advertising campaigns into a highly targeted and well timed event. For example, MailNote could notify an advertising campaign when mail was retrieved containing a flyer that was mailed earlier. The advertising campaign can then further target the user with online advertising after they read the flyer.

Patent intro language:
A system and method for determining the addition or removal of an object from a receptacle is provided. An ultrasound sensor may emit one or more bursts of ultrasonic energy and detect the amplitude of the echoes from each respective burst over time. A microcontroller may determine a decay rate of each respective burst from the amplitudes of the respective echoes. The decay rates are compared for changes within the receptacle caused by reflection, transmission, absorption, and diffusion of the ultrasound waves. If the difference between the second and first decay rates is larger than a predetermined amount, the addition of an object is determined.

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Looking for a sale of the patent or an enabler for funding and expertise to support product design, FCC certification, and marketing.

A nearly daily routine for millions of people is the waiting and checking for mail and in some unfortunate cases, walking back empty handed. We fix that! If you can peel an place a sticker, you can install Mail Note!

We assess MailNote has potential for substantial growth as part of the massive “Internet of Things” industry. Nearly everyone has a mailbox making them potential consumers. Currently there is a lack of competition in making mailboxes smart. MailNote has taken steps to protect this first to industry advantageous with a pending U.S. Patent and proprietary algorithms.

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US 10405683

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