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- Patent Title: Methods and arrangements for tracking and locating laptops
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Application No.: US15420913Application Date: 2017-01-31
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Publication No.: US10531279B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Rod D. Waltermann , Scott Edwards Kelso , John Carl Mese , Nathan J. Peterson , Arnold S. Weksler
- Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- Applicant Address: SG Singapore
- Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: SG Singapore
- Agency: Ference & Associates LLC
- Main IPC: H04W8/24
- IPC: H04W8/24 ; H04W64/00 ; H04W4/02 ; G08B13/14 ; H04W8/00

Abstract:
An embodiment provides a method including: operating a plurality of receivers of a mobile computer to obtain information from two or more different types of wireless transmitting devices in a vicinity of the mobile computer; where the information comprises data relating to an access point and data relating to at least one other wireless transmitting device; where at least two of the two or more wireless transmitting devices transmit data using different communication modalities; transmitting the information from the mobile computer to a remote device; and thereafter obtaining a location of the mobile computer based on the information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170142574A1 METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR TRACKING AND LOCATING LAPTOPS Public/Granted day:2017-05-18
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