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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. 14, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 21, 2015
Applicant:

Aruba Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Peter Thornycroft, Los Altos, CA (US);

Neal Castagnoli, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Gautam Bhanage, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Aruba Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2009.01); G01S 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/023 (2013.01); G01S 5/0036 (2013.01); H04W 40/244 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 84/02 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/021 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various techniques and systems are provided for determining a location of a target wireless device. Specifically, various techniques and systems are provided for determining a location of a wireless device using timestamps assigned to communications transmitted between the wireless device and one or more other wireless devices on a same WiFi channel as the wireless device. Implementations describe devices, computer-program products, and methods including transmitting a beacon frame by a network device on a channel of a radio frequency band, receiving a first frame that corresponds to the client device, assigning a first timestamp to the first frame, transmitting a second frame in response to the client device communication, assigning a second timestamp to the second frame, determining a time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, receiving an alternative time difference corresponding to an alternative network device on the channel, and determining a location of the client device using the time difference and the alternative time difference.


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