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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2007
William O. Camp, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);
BO Anders Angelhag, Lund, SE;
William O. Camp, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Bo Anders Angelhag, Lund, SE;
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Lund, SE;
Abstract
A system, device and method for identifying, within a local area, a location of an electronic device, such as a mobile telephone, includes determining a signal characteristic of a wireless communication from one or more wireless devices in the local area to the electronic device, wherein determining is performed by the electronic device. Then, based on a comparison of the determined signal characteristic from the one or more wireless devices to a plurality of reference signal characteristics the location of the electronic device in the local area is determined.