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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:
Jul. 16, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2015
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Catalin Moraru, Bucharest, RO;

Silviu Petria, Stilpeni, RO;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/024 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/024 (2018.02); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 4/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for tracking a person in a group of people. An example method includes establishing an ad-hoc network between mobile devices for each of the people in the group. A distance from a mobile device for a person in the group is determined to a mobile device for a group leader, based at least in part, on a number of hops between the mobile device for the person and mobile devices for other people in the group to reach the mobile device for the group leader. A direction to the mobile device for the group leader is determined, based at least in part, on the number of hops to reach the mobile device for the group leader by a number of paths.


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