Patent ID: 9686364
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G01S,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A computing device, comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations that: determine, based on location coordinates received from a positioning system, a respective physical location for each of a respective one or more devices in a network of devices; associate the respective physical locations for the one or more devices with a respective one or more location-based identifiers in a device information database in communication with the computing device; interpret a resource locator used to communicate with the one or more devices, the resource locator providing one or more location-based terms, wherein the resource locator comprises an extended Uniform Resource Locator syntax and includes: access device information from the device information database using the location-based terms; and identify the one or more devices in the network of devices using the device information.