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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:
Jan. 07, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2017
Applicant:

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Rod D. Waltermann, Rougemont, NC (US);

Scott Edwards Kelso, Cary, NC (US);

John Carl Mese, Cary, NC (US);

Nathan J. Peterson, Oxford, NC (US);

Arnold S. Weksler, Raleigh, NC (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G08B 13/14 (2006.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/24 (2013.01); G08B 13/1418 (2013.01); H04W 4/025 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment provides a method including: operating a plurality of receivers of a mobile computer to obtain information from two or more different types of wireless transmitting devices in a vicinity of the mobile computer; where the information comprises data relating to an access point and data relating to at least one other wireless transmitting device; where at least two of the two or more wireless transmitting devices transmit data using different communication modalities; transmitting the information from the mobile computer to a remote device; and thereafter obtaining a location of the mobile computer based on the information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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