Dynamic Geo-Location Tracking via Peer Device Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional solutions for locating lost devices require prior knowledge of their location or network connectivity, making them impractical for situations where users forget where they last parked their car or misplaced items.

Innovation Solution

A mechanism that facilitates dynamic detection and communication of geo-locations using a computing device, leveraging peer devices via connectivity techniques like Bluetooth, BLE, and cloud networking to automatically identify and record the location of lost devices, allowing for extended search capabilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If conventional location tracking solutions are used, then location information can be obtained, but the solution requires prior knowledge of the location or network connectivity which limits practicality

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepracticality of location trackingVSAvoidapplicability without prior knowledge

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by having multiple peer devices continuously scan and detect target devices before they are needed for location tracking. Detection logic is pre-established on multiple devices, and location data is collected and stored in advance, so when a user needs to locate a lost device, the information is already available without requiring the target device to be online or its location to be known beforehand.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediary peer devices that act as mediators between the lost device and the user seeking to locate it. These intermediary devices detect the target device's presence and relay location information through the network, eliminating the need for direct communication between the user and the lost device. This intermediary layer enables location tracking even when the target device is offline or its location is unknown.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If network connectivity is required for location applications to work, then location data can be accessed, but the solution fails when devices are offline or disconnected

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveavailability of location serviceVSAvoidfunctionality without network connection

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements local quality by enabling individual peer devices to independently perform detection and store location information locally on their own devices. Each device maintains its own detection capabilities and local database of detected devices, allowing the system to function distributed across multiple nodes without requiring constant network connectivity or centralized server dependency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Device complexity

If a single device performs detection, then the system is simple, but the search capability is limited to that device's proximity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesimplicity of detection systemVSAvoidsearch coverage area

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the detection task across multiple independent peer devices instead of relying on a single device. Each device independently performs detection within its own proximity range, and the collective coverage of all devices creates a distributed detection network that vastly expands the total search area while maintaining relative simplicity at each individual node.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the detection capabilities of multiple peer devices into a unified search system. By combining the detection results and location data from multiple devices through network communication, the system achieves extended search coverage that exceeds what any single device could provide alone, while presenting a unified interface to the user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS9473891B2Mechanism for facilitating dynamic detection and communication of geo-locations for devices

Publication Date: 2016.10.18 INTEL CORP

AI summary

A mechanism is described for facilitating detection and communication of geo-locations for devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes tracking, at a first smart device, one or more devices including a second smart device, and first and second smart devices including a computing device, and establishing a first connection with the second smart device, establishing further comprising exchanging first location data between the first smart device and the second smart device, establishing further including communicating a first current location associated with the first smart device to the second smart device. The method may further include identifying a second current location associated with the second smart device. The second current location may be initially recorded and iteratively rewritten at a first local memory of the first smart device.