Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Locating and tracking missing or relocated devices
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Application No.: US15090510Application Date: 2016-04-04
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Publication No.: US10028087B2Publication Date: 2018-07-17
- Inventor: Tom Haapanen , Matt Cecile
- Applicant: Tom Haapanen , Matt Cecile
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Main IPC: G08B1/08
- IPC: G08B1/08 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W4/00 ; G08B13/24 ; H04W4/80

Abstract:
Host terminals of a device management application (or other mobile application) are configured to obtain a missing devices list from a device management server, and to communicate, via short-range point-to-point communication with an output device, when the output device is within a short-range communication range threshold, to obtain a device identifier of the output device. The device management application compares the device identifier of the output device with device identifiers on the missing devices list, and when such comparison indicates that the output device corresponds to a missing device, marks the output device as a missing device in a tracked device record, and records an approximated location of the output device in the tracked device record. When connected to the device management server, the device management application transmits the tracked device record to the device management server.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170289750A1 LOCATING AND TRACKING MISSING OR RELOCATED DEVICES Public/Granted day:2017-10-05
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