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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Gautam Majumdar, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Michael Q. Wang, Irving, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G08B 25/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/206 (2013.01); G01C 21/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach for identifying a location of a mobile device is provided. In the approach, location information from a mobile device is received, wherein the location information includes a sampling of location coordinates of the mobile device over a period of time. A processor generates a path, using the sampling of location coordinates of the mobile device over the period of time. A processor compares the path to geographic information system (GIS) data associated with the received location information. A processor determines additional location information based on the path and the GIS data.


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