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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2012
Zhengrong Ji, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Jesse Chu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Adel Amin Youssef, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Arunesh Mishra, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steven John Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ravi Jain, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zhengrong Ji, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Jesse Chu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Adel Amin Youssef, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Arunesh Mishra, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steven John Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ravi Jain, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for estimating the minimum geographic coverage of a wireless base station. In an embodiment, the present invention estimates coverage by (1) receiving real-time wireless base station information from the mobile device; (2) extracting a set of location points and system specific information based on the real-time wireless base station information; (3) determining a coverage area based on the set of location points and the system specific information; (4) adjusting for errors based on various factors (5) storing the determined coverage area.