Apr 15, 2025

US12279181 - Weapon manager

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a weapon manager are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of determining, by the server, that the weapon is in a particular location. The actions further include determining, by the server, a projected travel path of the weapon. The actions further include, based on determining that the weapon is in a particular location and the projected travel path of the weapon, generating, by the server, an instruction to disable the weapon. The actions further include providing, for output to the weapon, the instruction to disable the weapon.

Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Inventors: Ahmad Arash Obaidi
Filing date: 2024-02-05

The patent describes a computer-implemented method for a weapon management system that determines the location of a weapon using wireless communication and signal strength. It includes generating instructions to capture data from nearby devices and to disable the weapon based on its determined location.

Claim 1

A computer-implemented method, comprising: determining that a weapon is communicating with a wireless access point; determining a signal strength of communications between the weapon and the wireless access point; based on a location of the wireless access point and the signal strength of the communications between the weapon and the wireless access point, determining a location of the weapon; determining that a computing device that is configured to capture audio, video, or image data is at the location of the weapon; based the location of the weapon, generating an instruction to capture audio, video, or image data; providing, for output to the computing device, the instruction to capture audio, video, or image data; based on the location of the weapon, generating an instruction to disable the weapon; and providing, for output to the weapon, the instruction to disable the weapon. determining that a weapon is communicating with a wireless access point; determining a signal strength of communications between the weapon and the wireless access point; based on a location of the wireless access point and the signal strength of the communications between the weapon and the wireless access point, determining a location of the weapon; determining that a computing device that is configured to capture audio, video, or image data is at the location of the weapon; based the location of the weapon, generating an instruction to capture audio, video, or image data; providing, for output to the computing device, the instruction to capture audio, video, or image data; based on the location of the weapon, generating an instruction to disable the weapon; and providing, for output to the weapon, the instruction to disable the weapon.

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