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Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2017
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vinit Chandrakant Deshpande, San Jose, CA (US);

Prerepa V. Viswanadham, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/003 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for locating a network device. A location provider determines, based on location data, a location of a wireless access point. The location data includes location data from each of a plurality of network devices, wherein the location data for each network device includes the network device's location and data representative of a distance between the wireless access point and each network device. The location provider generates, based on the location of the wireless access point, location information for the wireless access point, signs the location information with a credential to form signed location information, and communicates the signed location information to the wireless access point.


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