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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2016
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Rodolfo A. Santiago, Bellevue, WA (US);
Thomas Goff, Issaquah, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A wireless device detection computer device for determining the location of wireless device is provided. The WDD computer device includes a processor in communication with a memory. The processor is configured to receive a plurality of status messages from a plurality of anchor points. Each status message of the plurality of status messages includes a received signal strength associated with a first wireless signal received at the corresponding anchor point from a first wireless device. The processor is also configured to determine a plurality of subsets of the plurality of anchor points, determine a potential location of the first wireless device for each of the plurality of subsets, generate a clustering of the plurality of potential locations, select a first group of the plurality of subsets based on the clustering, and calculate a final location of the first wireless device.