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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 17, 2017
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Arvind Jain, Los Altos, CA (US);

Brian Clair Williammee, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 48/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/54 (2013.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); G01S 5/0221 (2013.01); G01S 5/0242 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); G06F 17/3087 (2013.01); H04L 12/5692 (2013.01); H04L 41/0813 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 43/0888 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 48/00 (2013.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01); H04W 88/085 (2013.01); H04L 41/142 (2013.01); H04L 43/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method including: receiving network performance parameters of a plurality of data networks, the network performance parameters being collected by individual client devices of a plurality of client devices; receiving location data indicating a geographic location of the individual client devices when the network performance parameters were collected, the received location data being associated with respective network performance parameters; selecting, from the received location data, a subset of the received location data associated with network performance parameters of a first data network of the plurality of data networks; calculating a geographic location of a first access point of the first data network based on at least one geographic location indicated by the subset of the received location data; and building a database entry indicating the calculated geographic location of the first access point.


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