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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2012
Applicants:
Antti Kainulainen, Espoo, FI;
Juha Salokannel, Tampere, FI;
Inventors:
Antti Kainulainen, Espoo, FI;
Juha Salokannel, Tampere, FI;
Assignee:
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 11/04 (2006.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01); G01S 1/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04H 20/02 (2008.01); H04L 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method, apparatus, and computer program product example embodiments provide short-range communication based direction finding. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method comprises transmitting by a target device, information in one or more advertising packets, including preferences of the target device for using data signing associated with direction finding; and receiving by the target device from a tracker device, one or more direction finding request packets including a request for data signing corresponding with the target device preferences.