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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2018
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Mateusz Marek Niewczas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Manish Modi, Fremont, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first, a second, and a third sensing events within a same beacon message interval from a mobile device, each sensing event including a beacon device identifier associated with a beacon device and a timestamp associated with a respective beacon message, a location of the mobile device, and a power level associated with the respective beacon message, determining a first, a second, and a third distances between the mobile device and the beacon device based on the first, the second, and the third sensing events, and determining a position of the beacon device based on the first, the second, and the third distances.