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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2003
Mohammad Shabbir Alam, Redmond, WA (US);
Warren Vincent Barkley, Mill Creek, WA (US);
Timothy M. Moore, Bellevue, WA (US);
Geoffrey E. Pease, Kirkland, WA (US);
Steven A. N. Shafer, Seattle, WA (US);
Florin Teodorescu, Redmond, WA (US);
Yinghua Yao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Madhurima Pawar, Bellevue, WA (US);
John C. Krumm, Redmond, WA (US);
Mohammad Shabbir Alam, Redmond, WA (US);
Warren Vincent Barkley, Mill Creek, WA (US);
Timothy M. Moore, Bellevue, WA (US);
Geoffrey E. Pease, Kirkland, WA (US);
Steven A. N. Shafer, Seattle, WA (US);
Florin Teodorescu, Redmond, WA (US);
Yinghua Yao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Madhurima Pawar, Bellevue, WA (US);
John C. Krumm, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A location service and method provides a location aware computing device that is extensible by allowing different types of location awareness providers operate with the service. The method includes receiving a request for a location context, acquiring data associated with a current location from one or more location detection devices, reconciling the acquired data for any inconsistencies concerning the current location by applying either or both of a hierarchical and a metric process, and generating a location object accessible to applications. The service includes a location management component configured to route location data, a fuser engine configured to receive one or more location reports generated from the location data, reconcile conflicts between the location reports and generate a location object, and one or more location application programming interfaces (APIs) coupled to the location management component to transmit the location object from the fuser engine to an application.