International Business Machines Corporation

James W Thoensen

Jonathan Lenchner

Jonathan Hudson Connell, Ii

Jeffrey Owen Kephart

Canturk Isci

Suzanne K McIntosh

John C Nelson

Iqbal I Mohomed

Robert J Calio

Michael J Frissora

Mechanisms are provided for determining the physical location of a physical asset in a physical area. A plurality of physical assets are controlled to cause each physical asset to output a visual output pattern on visual output elements of the physical asset. An image of a target physical asset is captured that has the current state of the visual output elements. An identification of the target physical asset is determined based on the current state of the visual output elements. A physical location of the target physical asset is determined based on a physical location of the image capture device when the image was captured. Location data identifying the determined physical location of the target physical asset is stored in an asset database in association with configuration information for the physical asset.

Information technology asset location using visual detectors

Growing community of inventors

Danbury, CT, United States of America

James W Thoensen