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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
May. 11, 2022
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, SA;
Uthman Baroudi, Dhahran, SA;
Yousef Ahmed Ahmed Ali, Dhahran, SA;
KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS, Dhahran, SA;
Abstract
A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for using a smartphone clustering application. The method includes identifying, by each smartphone equipped with the smartphone clustering application, a cluster of neighboring smartphones equipped with the smartphone clustering application; determining a cluster head by each smartphone in the cluster; determining position by the cluster head; transmitting personal information by each smartphone to the cluster head; receiving the personal information from each of the neighboring smartphones by the cluster head; aggregating personal information with the personal information from each of the neighboring smartphones by the cluster head and generating aggregated personal information; combining, by the cluster head, its position with the aggregated personal information into a communication stream; identifying an access point by the cluster head; transmitting the communication stream to the access point; and transmitting the communication stream by the access point to a server side smartphone clustering application.