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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2010
Geoffrey M Lyon, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Geoffrey M Lyon, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention describes a method of determining the location of an asset comprising the steps of: for each asset tag in the rack, exchanging identity information and location information with at least one tag of a neighboring asset, wherein at least the location information is exchanged along a substantially physically unobstructed path between the asset tag and it's at least one neighboring asset tag; for each asset tag, transmitting the identity information and location information exchanged to a collection unit; and responsive to the information transmitted to the collection unit determining the location of the asset relative to other assets.
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