Avaya Inc.

Avaya Technology LLC

Christopher Alexander Fegan

Muneyb Minhazuddin

Paul Thomas McNamara

Rohan Lenard

Ralph Warta

A system for determining the vicinity of a communication device within a communication network is provided. Individual communication devices are provided with an active identification reader capable of reporting information concerning identified passive identification tags to a location server. At least some passive identification tags have fixed or known locations, allowing a communication device capable of reading such a passive identification1 tag to be determined to be within a particular vicinity or area. Communication devices may also be provided with passive identification tags to allow other active identification readers to determine whether the communication device is in their vicinity.

Communication device locating system

An enterprise networkfor tracking objects is provided. The networkincludes: (a) a plurality of subscriber communication devicesand; (b) a plurality of readers, each of the communication devices being in communication with a corresponding reader, wherein each reader is operable to read a set of object identifiers, each object identifier in the set corresponding to an Identification devicepositioned on a respective object; and (c) a location agentoperable to determine, from at least one of the sets of object identifiers, a physical location of each objecthaving an object identifier in the at least one of the sets of object identifiers.

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Darlington, Australia

Christopher Alexander Fegan