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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2017
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Haifang Zhai, Shanghai, CN;
Hendry Wu, Shanghai, CN;
David Dong, Shanghai, CN;
Yujie Zhou, Shanghai, CN;
Peter Yuanhang Pan, Shanghai, CN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for determining a physical position of an electronic device. The method comprises obtaining, at a power distribution unit (PDU) that provides power supply for the electronic device, a position identifier of a physical position of the PDU from a radio frequency (RF) tag reader. The method further comprises providing to a computing device the position identifier, a network address of the PDU and a network address of the electronic device associated with the network address of the PDU so that the computing device determines the physical position of the electronic device.