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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2017
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
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);
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
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.