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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
May. 29, 2019
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Miami, FL (US);
Laura Barnes, Miami, FL (US);
Joey Hasty, Miami, FL (US);
ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD., Miami, FL (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for object location and tracking. A method for object location and tracking within a bounded space includes establishing a wireless communications link between a wireless network adapter disposed within a smartphone and a wireless access point positioned remotely from the smartphone, and receiving thereafter, an identity of the wireless access point. Thereafter, a short-range wireless signal is received in the smartphone by a short-range wireless receiver disposed within the smartphone separately from the wireless network adapter, and an identifier of an object is extracted therefrom. Finally, a message is generated that combines the identity of the wireless access point and the identifier of the object and the message is transmitted through the wireless communications link to a host server coupled both to the wireless access point and also several other wireless access points over a computer communications network.