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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Samuel B. Hawker, Winchester, GB;

Andrew Michael Lees, Ferndown, GB;

Aaron James Collins, Southampton, GB;

Aaron Tomor Robert Gashi, Eastleigh, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/00 (2009.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/005 (2013.01); G06K 9/00664 (2013.01); G06K 9/00711 (2013.01); G06T 7/248 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); H04W 64/006 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product for identifying and linking communicating devices using live camera data includes: identifying a visible device that is visible to a linking device; identifying a connected device that is connected to the linking device; determining visible movement of the visible device; requesting video information from the connected device; calculating, using the video information, video movement of the connected device; determining that the visible movement matches the video movement; concluding, based on the determining, that the visible device is the connected device; and linking, based on the concluding, the visible device and the connected device.


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