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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2013
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mark Vandevoorde, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arunesh Mishra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/0284 (2013.01); G01S 5/0242 (2013.01); G06F 17/30705 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for determining the location of a wireless access point is described Location data points are collected from a plurality of mobile devices associated with a particular access point. The collected location data points are organized into at least two clusters. The location data points are further grouped into sessions based on a characteristic of the location data points. A rank qualifier is applied to each of the organized clusters. The location of the wireless access point is determined based on one or more of the organized clusters.