Electronic system location determination

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2011-05-17

2011-05-17

Zand, Kambiz (Department: 2434)

Information security

Protection of hardware

Theft prevention

C340S539130, C455S456100, C455S456200, C455S456600

Reexamination Certificate

active

07942936

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.

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