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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2019
Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Yael Maguire, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karthik Yogeeswaran, San Francisco, CA (US);
META PLATFORMS, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an association request from a nearby electronic device via a local wireless network connection, transmitting a position coordinate associated with a first node via the local wireless network connection to the nearby electronic device, receiving location information of one or more peer nodes from the nearby electronic device, adding the location information of the one or more peer nodes into a log included in the first node, and determining that at least two nodes are within Line-of-Sight (LOS) communication range of the first node based on the log, wherein the at least two nodes are included in the one or more peer nodes.