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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2014
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
David W. Browning, Beaverton, OR (US);
Kristoffer D. Fleming, Chandler, AZ (US);
Robert E. Gough, Sherwood, OR (US);
Guy G. Sotomayor, San Jose, CA (US);
Vasudev Bibikar, Austin, TX (US);
Ankush Varma, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to logging random 'chirps' of IoT devices and rebroadcasting these chirps to other devices on demand. An apparatus consistent with the present disclosure includes a transmitter to communicate with a network of wireless-communication-enabled devices. The apparatus also includes a receiver to detect communications transmitted from the wireless-communication-enabled device. Further, the apparatus includes control unit logic to tally the number of electrical signals emitted from each wireless-communication-enabled device. In addition, the apparatus includes memory to store the number of emitted electrical signals. The apparatus further includes a power unit electrically coupled to the transmitter, receiver, and memory.