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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:
Jun. 30, 2026

Filed:

Apr. 20, 2023
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Christina Selle, Los Altos, CA (US);

Bharath Narasimha Rao, San Mateo, CA (US);

Saurabh Godha, San Jose, CA (US);

Andrew J. Kerns, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Adam M. Driscoll, Atherton, CA (US);

Gunes Dervisoglu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Archana Belvadi, Cupertino, CA (US);

Jong-Ki Lee, San Jose, CA (US);

Girish Joshi, Cupertino, CA (US);

Halil Ibrahim Basturk, San Jose, CA (US);

Seyyedeh Mahsa Mirzargar, Los Altos, CA (US);

Jonathan M. Beard, San Jose, CA (US);

Richard Najarian, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/02 (2010.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/02521 (2020.05); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 52/0229 (2013.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, non-transitory machine-readable mediums, and system to provide location services are described. In an embodiment, a method provides receiving at least two position fixes for a trajectory of an electronic device, where the at least two position fixes are obtained intermittently, matching the at least two position fixes to points on a path indicated in map data, and computing a distance for the trajectory using distance information using the map data.


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