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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
William Lucy, Durham, NC (US);
Hank Ibell, Morrisville, NC (US);
John Anthony Feller, Cary, NC (US);
Christopher Meyer, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for monitoring a physical area for unauthorized access by a user of a wireless device, includes scanning for signals from a wireless device, detecting a wireless signal from a wireless device, determining a wireless device ID associated with the wireless signal, determining whether the wireless device ID matches a wireless ID in an authorized or unauthorized ID list and in response to determining that the wireless device ID matches a wireless ID in the unauthorized wireless ID list, activate a security alert. The method may further include in response to determining, that the wireless device ID does not match a wireless ID in the authorized wireless ID list nor the unauthorized wireless ID list, receiving, signal strength information associated with the detected wireless signal for a predetermined time interval and determining a pattern as a function of time of the received signal strength.