Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wireless location tracking tag for monitoring real time location-tracking apparatus for an electronic device
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Application No.: US16878753Application Date: 2020-05-20
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Publication No.: US11245799B2Publication Date: 2022-02-08
- Inventor: Fritz Francis Ebner , Matthew Dylan Coene , Aaron Zachary Borden , Matthew David Levesque
- Applicant: Xerox Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CT Norwalk
- Assignee: Xerox Corporation
- Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Norwalk
- Agency: Fox Rothschild LLP
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00 ; H04W4/029 ; H04N1/32

Abstract:
A system for tracking the location of an electronic device includes an electronic device and a wireless location tag. The wireless location tag includes a microcontroller unit, and a modular connector interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a port of the electronic device. The wireless location tag is configured to establish an Internet connection to one or more backend electronic devices in response to detecting that the wireless location tag has been communicatively coupled to the port of the electronic device, obtain identifying information that is associated with the electronic device, and identify tag identifying information associated with the wireless location tag. The wireless location tag is also configured to send one or more instructions to the one or more backend electronic devices via the Internet connection, and send one or more ping messages to the one or more backend electronic devices.
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