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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2005
Filed:
May. 21, 2001
Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven G. Fry, Oakland, CA (US);
Johnny C. Chan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven G. Fry, Oakland, CA (US);
Johnny C. Chan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for determining a relative location of a device on a network is provided. In this system and method, a list of landmark nodes provided on the network is received. Then, a value which is a time, a latency and/or a distance from the device to each of the landmark nodes is determined. Each of the determined values corresponding to the respective node of the landmark nodes is transmitted to a central arrangement to provide the relative location of the device with respect to the landmark nodes.