Electronic System Location Determination

• US 20110183696A1
• Filed: 04/06/2011
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Golden, Stuart A.
• Application Number:
  US13/080,777
• Publication Number:
  US 20110183696A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/507
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A lost or stolen computing device is recovered. A trusted server is requested to locate the computing device. The trusted server requests coarse location information from the computing device, and the computing device reports its coarse location. The trusted server then requests that the computing device transmit wireless local area networks signal so that it may be recovered.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request to locate a computing device;

contacting the computing device over a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and requesting coarse location information;

sending to the computing device a request to transmit wireless local area network (WLAN) signals.

2-21. -21. (canceled)