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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2021
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Jan Morten Braathen, Redmond, WA (US);
Merril Ray Newman, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Timothy Wayne Simerly, Cumming, GA (US);
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A method includes: periodically receiving data via a ubiquitous network from each of a plurality of devices, where each of the devices is associated with one of the plurality of entities and has a unique identifier; determining, as a function of the received data, a plurality of temporal locations for each of the plurality of entities, each of the temporal locations identifying a time and place where an associated entity was located; and, correlating encounters between two or more of the plurality of entities with incidence data associated with an incident, wherein an encounter is registered when a temporal location of a first of the plurality of entities is within a predefined proximity of at least a second of the plurality of entities within a physical zone associated with the incident.