International Business Machines Corporation
Link devices using their relative positions

Abstract:

A method, system, and computer program product for identifying and linking communicating devices using live camera data includes: identifying a visible device that is visible to a linking device; identifying a connected device that is connected to the linking device; determining visible movement of the visible device; requesting video information from the connected device; calculating, using the video information, video movement of the connected device; determining that the visible movement matches the video movement; concluding, based on the determining, that the visible device is the connected device; and linking, based on the concluding, the visible device and the connected device.