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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2020
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Saurabh Kishore, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jeffrey Lairsey, Round Rock, TX (US);
Sudhir Shetty, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Alex Rote, Hutto, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided for utilizing location services of a mesh network to aid in tracking the presence and location of information handling systems in an environment having a large number of systems installed. In one embodiment, each information handling system joins a mesh network to form localized clusters. Mesh network location services aid the new system in finding a vertically-closest node in the cluster or a neighboring cluster. With this information, the new system can determine in which rack the system is installed. This information can then be provided to an inventory management system for inclusion of the information handling system in an inventory tracking database. Embodiments are also configured to determine when an information handling system is removed from the mesh network and can inform the inventory management system of the removal in order to determine whether additional steps need to be taken in response.