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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jeremy A. Greenberger, San Jose, CA (US);
Ciaran E. Hannigan, Morrisville, NC (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method includes: monitoring, by a computing device, respective locations of a plurality of user devices; determining, by the computing device, that a particular group of user devices of the plurality of user devices are located within a threshold distance of each other based on monitoring the respective locations of the plurality of user devices; and storing or outputting, by the computing device, grouping information indicating that the particular group of user devices are associated with a single user based on the determining that the particular group of user devices are located within a threshold distance of each other.