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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin D. Cox, Winchester, GB;

Daniel P. Craggs, Montreal, CA;

Christopher J. Poole, Romsey, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/24 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01); G01S 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/24 (2013.01); G01S 1/08 (2013.01); G01S 5/0252 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01);
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.


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