Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Locating a lost device
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Application No.: US15284578Application Date: 2016-10-04
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Publication No.: US10229582B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Benjamin D. Cox , Daniel P. Craggs , Christopher J. Poole
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Erik K. Johnson
- Main IPC: G08B1/08
- IPC: G08B1/08 ; G08B21/24 ; H04W4/02 ; G01S5/02 ; G01S1/08 ; H04B17/318 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L29/08 ; H04W40/24 ; G08B13/14 ; G08B21/02 ; H04W12/12 ; H04W4/80

Abstract:
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for detecting a device. The embodiment may include a computing device that determines a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of a beacon of a second device. The computing device may determine a first location of the first device. The computing device may determine whether the UUID of the beacon of the second device matches a UUID in a list of UUIDs, where each UUID in the list of UUIDs corresponds to a beacon associated with a device. The computing device may transmitting the UUID of the beacon of the second device and the first location to a third device, based on determining the UUID of the beacon of the second device matches an entry in the list.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170374515A1 LOCATING A LOST DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-12-28
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