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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2014
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

David Jonathan Julian, San Diego, CA (US);

Chong Uk Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);

Kamran Moallemi, Carlsbad, CA (US);

Avneesh Agrawal, Bangalore KRN, IN;

Manuel Eduardo Jaime, Solana Beach, CA (US);

Robert Keith Douglas, San Diego, CA (US);

Lu Xiao, San Diego, CA (US);

Gregory Gordon Rose, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 8/22 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); G01S 11/06 (2006.01); G01S 13/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/24 (2013.01); H04W 8/22 (2013.01); H04W 64/006 (2013.01); G01S 11/06 (2013.01); G01S 13/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various operations may be performed based on a distance-related function associated with two or more devices. For example, an association procedure for two or more devices may be based on one or more determined distances. Similarly, presence management may be based on one or more determined distances. A distance-related function may take various form including, for example, a distance between devices, two or more distances between devices, a rate of change in a relative distance between devices, relative acceleration between devices, or some combination of two or more of the these distance-related functions.


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