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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2017
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ilya Sokolov, Boston, MA (US);
Keith Newstadt, Newton, MA (US);
Richard F. Andrews, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for guiding users to network-enabled devices may include (i) monitoring network communications within a wireless network, (ii) determining, based on monitoring network communications transmitted over the wireless network that involve a network-enabled device connected to the wireless network, that an end user requires guidance to a physical location of the network-enabled device, (iii) deriving the physical location of the network-enabled device in three-dimensional space, and (iv) guiding, by a user interface, the end user to the physical location of the network-enabled device in three-dimensional space. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.