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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2010
Applicant:
Nitin Kumar, San Ramon, CA (US);
Inventor:
Nitin Kumar, San Ramon, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A mobile computing device comprises a wireless transceiver and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to identify a location, to identify a wireless access point within a predetermined distance of the location, to detect a wireless access point identifier using the wireless transceiver, to compare the detected wireless access point identifier to the identified wireless access point, and to initiate location determination based on the comparison.