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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Vinay Sridhara, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Faraz Mohammad Mirzaei, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Saumitra Mohan Das, Santa Clara, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for detecting location changes and monitoring assistance data via scanning for use in or with a mobile device. Briefly, in accordance with at least one implementation, a method may include obtaining, at a mobile device, a rough estimate of a location of the mobile device; identifying a plurality of transmitters within a signal acquisition range of the roughly estimated location; transmitting probe requests addressed to at least some of the transmitters; and selectively initiating a passive scan at a receiver of the mobile device if a number of responses to the probe requests received from the transmitters is less than a threshold number.
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