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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2016
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ju-Yong Do, Cupertino, CA (US);
Weihua Gao, San Jose, CA (US);
Meghna Agrawal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gengsheng Zhang, Cuppertino, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of locating a target device includes: producing, at a query device, a request for a location of a target device, the query device including a first radio, of a first type, configured to communicate wirelessly using a first communication protocol, the target lacking a radio of the first type but including a second radio, of a second type, configured to communicate wirelessly using a second communication protocol, the second communication protocol being incompatible with the first communication protocol; and transmitting the request wirelessly, from the query device to a first intermediate device, using the first radio.