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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2016
Trimble Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard C. Krebs, Boulder, CO (US);
Cary Steven Kiest, Albany, OR (US);
TRIMBLE INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for providing locations for each of a plurality of non-Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled devices (e.g., locations of 'things' or objects in the IoT, for sensors in a WSN, and so on). The system includes a source device or 'thing' including memory (e.g., a long-range sensor in a WSN or the like). The system also includes a portable computing device (e.g., a handheld GPS-enabled device), and the portable computing device includes: (a) a processor; (b) a location-determining assembly operating to determine location information for the portable computing device; and (c) a location-transferring module run by the processor to provide the location information in the memory of the source device (e.g., to copy the information to a predefined storage location for later retrieval and inclusion in predefined parts of a message or data packet).