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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Ronald Keryuan Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay N. Bruins, Los Altos, CA (US);
Marc Edward Schonbrun, San Jose, CA (US);
Vinay A. Ramaswamy, San Jose, CA (US);
Longda Xing, San Jose, CA (US);
Madhusudan Chaudhary, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Matthew S. Klahn, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for using a location to refine network-provided time zone information is disclosed. The method can include a wireless communication device receiving a time zone information message from a network; determining multiple candidate time zones matching a set of time zone identification parameters included in the received time zone information message; deriving a location of the wireless communication device; and using the location to select a current time zone for the wireless communication device from the candidate time zones matching the set of time zone identification parameters.