公开(公告)号：US09942704B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-10

申请号：US15249105

申请日：2016-08-26

Applicant: TRIMBLE INC.

Inventor： Richard C. Krebs ,  Cary Steven Kiest

IPC: H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/749

CPC classification number: H04W4/02 ,  H04L45/741 ,  H04L69/16 ,  H04L69/22 ,  H04W4/70

Abstract: A system for providing locations for each of a plurality of non-Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled devices (e.g., locations of “things” or objects in the IoT, for sensors in a WSN, and so on). The system includes a source device or “thing” including memory (e.g., a long-range sensor in a WSN or the like). The system also includes a portable computing device (e.g., a handheld GPS-enabled device), and the portable computing device includes: (a) a processor; (b) a location-determining assembly operating to determine location information for the portable computing device; and (c) a location-transferring module run by the processor to provide the location information in the memory of the source device (e.g., to copy the information to a predefined storage location for later retrieval and inclusion in predefined parts of a message or data packet).