公开(公告)号：US20170188242A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-29

申请号：US14757628

申请日：2015-12-23

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： Chittabrata Ghosh ,  Jeonghun Park

IPC: H04W16/18 ,  H04W24/08

CPC classification number: H04W24/08 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W84/02

Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a method, apparatus and system to provide clustering devices associated with a group of so-called Internet of Things (IoT) devices so as to accurately associate multiple devices with a device user. In one embodiment of the disclosure IoT devices transmit cluster identifier requests which are received at one or more Access Points (APs). An AP determines whether to group different IoTs in the same cluster as a function of the received signal power from each IoT. If IoTs are determined to be clustered together, the AP sends a cluster identifier with a time stamp to each IoT in the group. The process is repeated so as to continually identify the IoTs that are proximate enough to be clustered together.