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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2011
Glenn Donald Macgougan, San Jose, CA (US);
Lukas M. Marti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert Mayor, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Ronald K. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason Dere, San Jose, CA (US);
Yefim Grosman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Glenn Donald MacGougan, San Jose, CA (US);
Lukas M. Marti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert Mayor, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Ronald K. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason Dere, San Jose, CA (US);
Yefim Grosman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations, a location of a mobile device can be determined by calculating an average of the locations of wireless signal transmitters that have transmitted signals received by the mobile device. In some implementations, locations are weighted with coefficients and the average is a weighted average. In some implementations, the locations of the wireless signal transmitters are determined based on identification information encoded in the wireless signals received by the mobile device. The identification information can include an identifier for a wireless signal transmitter. The identification information can include characteristics of the received wireless signal that can be used to identify wireless signal transmitters. In some implementations, identification information from one signal can be combined with identification information from another signal to determine a location of a wireless transmitter.