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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:
Jul. 12, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2015
Applicant:

Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Matti Vilppula, Lempäälä, FI;

Arto Mattila, Lempäälä, FI;

Markku T Niemi, Kangasala, FI;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 9/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01); G01S 19/48 (2010.01); H04W 28/18 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2013.01); G01S 5/0257 (2013.01); G01S 5/0263 (2013.01); G01S 19/48 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 28/18 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and device for position determination, in which one or more application requests a positioning method selection device for positioning data. The positioning method selection device provides an application with positioning data using one or more positioning method in accordance with settings defined by the application and/or the user. The positioning method selection device receives a positioning request from an application, forms a parameter or parameters indicating the quality of positioning requested by the application, compares the quality of positioning data provided by the positioning methods with the positioning quality required by the application, and sends the positioning data to the application in response to the positioning request.


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