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Quickly locating devices

  • US 20150350051A1
  • Filed: 06/03/2014
  • Published: 12/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2014
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method operative at a computing device, the computing device being one of a set of computing devices, each computing device in the set including networking technology, comprising:

  • maintaining data about one or more other computing devices in the set, the data identifying a time and location of a last successful connection between the computing device and the one or more of the other computing devices;

    updating the data as computing devices in the set move out of communication range with one another, wherein data is updated upon an event that is one of;

    (a) when the computing device itself loses contact with one of the other computing devices in the set, and (b) when the computing device receives a notification from a second computing device that the second computing device has lost contact with a third computing device in the set;

    upon receipt of a request to locate a lost computing device that is one of the set of computing devices, using the updated data to identify a last known location of the lost computing device;

    wherein at least one of the steps is implemented in software executing in a hardware element.

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