Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enabling mobile applications to acquire a MAC address for obtaining location information
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Application No.: US14877989Application Date: 2015-10-08
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Publication No.: US09509786B2Publication Date: 2016-11-29
- Inventor: Neil R. Diener , Jagdish Girimaji , Rad Sethuraman , Balachander Chandrasekaran , Ravi Akireddy
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L29/06 ; H04W4/02

Abstract:
Techniques are presented to enable a network element in a network to receive a request from an application on a device, the request being encapsulated in a packet that includes a header that contains a physical layer identifier of the device to which the application does not have access. The physical layer identifier at the network element may be obtained. A response may be sent to the application on the device, the response containing at least one of the physical layer identifier of the device and location information of the device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160028837A1 Enabling Mobile Applications to Acquire a MAC Address for Obtaining Location Information Public/Granted day:2016-01-28
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