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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2012
Kurt W. Piersol, Campbell, CA (US);
John W. Barrus, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Stephen R. Savitzky, San Jose, CA (US);
Sergey Chemishkian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kurt W. Piersol, Campbell, CA (US);
John W. Barrus, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Stephen R. Savitzky, San Jose, CA (US);
Sergey Chemishkian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods for self-labeling access points with their geographic location from received beacon frames. In particular, the present invention transmits beacon frames including temporary location information from mobile devices. The beacon frames are received by an access point, filtered by the access point and then used to determine a location. Once the location has been determined, the access point uses the determined location to self-label itself by converting the location information to a geographic code and inserting it as part of the SSID of the access point's beacon signal. The present invention also includes a number of methods using geographic codes including a method for generating and transmitting geographic codes for mobile devices, a method for determining a location of an access point, a method for self-labeling an access point, and a method for filtering beacon frames.