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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2013
Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Reto Meier, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeff Brown, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nicholas Julian Pelly, San Francisco, CA (US);
Angana Ghosh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stephen David Zelinka, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Mohammed Waleed Kadous, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain embodiments of this disclosure include methods and devices for adjusting the precision of location information. According to one embodiment, a method is provided. The method may include: obtaining a request for location information from an application; determining that the location information needs to be adjusted; obtaining the location information; adjusting the location information, wherein the adjusting includes: (i) adding noise to the location information to obtain noisy location information, (ii) discretizing the noisy location information to obtain discretized location information, and (iii) hysteresizing the discretized location information to obtain adjusted location information. The adjusted location information may then be provided to the requesting application.