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Crowdsourced determination of movable device location

  • US 9,952,744 B2
  • Filed: 11/19/2015
  • Issued: 04/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of establishing a location of a device in an institutional space, the method comprising the steps of:

  • providing a device-location database storing records for each of a plurality of devices registered in the database as located in the institutional space, the database electronically storing, for each device, a record specifying a location of the device within the institutional space and when the location was most recently updated;

    at the device, registering a request of a user for log-on and authentication;

    in response to the request, prompting the user for authentication information and, depending on how recently the database record corresponding to the device was updated, a current location of the device;

    in response to a current location was obtained from the user, causing the current location and a time it was obtained to be stored in the database record corresponding the devicewherein, in response to an interval between a current time and a time when the database record corresponding to the device was last updated exceeding a threshold, a plurality of users are prompted for a current location of the device, and further comprising the step of correlating the current locations provided by the plurality of users to determine consistency thereamong prior to causing the current location to be stored in the database.

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