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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:
Mar. 03, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

John S. Werner, Fishkill, NY (US);

Budy D. Notohardjono, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Robert K. Mullady, Highland, NY (US);

Noah Singer, New City, NY (US);

Arkadiy O. Tsfasman, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Daniel J. Kearney, Ulster Park, NY (US);

Matteo Cocchini, Long Island City, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 19/00 (2011.01); H01R 13/631 (2006.01); H01R 13/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 13/631 (2013.01); G06K 7/10297 (2013.01); G06K 9/00671 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); H01R 13/465 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for facilitating cable plugging in a network by wirelessly reading, by a hand-held mobile device, connector identifying information directly from a tag associated with a cable connector at one end of a cable to be plugged in the network. The hand-held mobile device uses the connector identifying information to ascertain guidance for where to properly plug the cable connector in the network, and based on ascertaining the guidance, an action is performed to assist in properly plugging the cable connector in the network.


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