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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2014
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Qiyan Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anand Kashyap, Pune, IN;
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for locating unrecognized computing devices may include (1) identifying a plurality of cooperating computing devices on a wireless network that are each configured with a device location application, (2) determining a physical location for each cooperating computing device within the plurality of cooperating computing devices, (3) receiving, from the device location application on the plurality of cooperating computing devices, data about packets intercepted by the plurality of cooperating computing devices that are directed to the wireless network by an unrecognized computing device, and (4) locating the unrecognized computing device based on information received from the plurality of cooperating computing devices that identifies both the physical location for each cooperating computing device and signal strengths of the packets intercepted by the plurality of cooperating computing devices. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.