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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2012
Yefim Grosman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert W. Mayor, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Ronald K. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Konstantinov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yefim Grosman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert W. Mayor, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Ronald K. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Konstantinov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a system and method for tile-based reduction of access point location information are described. Embodiments may reduce a set of network access points and respective locations to generate a reduced set. For instance, embodiments may include parsing a representation of a geographic region into multiple tiles. Embodiments may also include, for each sub-area or 'bucket' of multiple buckets that make up a given tile, evaluating the set of network access points and respective locations to identify network access points residing in that bucket, and based on a ranking of the network access points in that bucket, eliminating at least some network access points of that sub-area from the reduced set. Embodiments may also include, for each sub-tile of multiple sub-tiles of the given tile, assigning within the reduced set a common location to multiple access points residing within different locations of that sub-tile.