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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2015
Skyhook Wireless, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Nicolas Brachet, Newton, MA (US);
Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz, Wayland, MA (US);
Joel N. Nelson, Groton, MA (US);
Russel K. Jones, Medfield, MA (US);
Skyhook Wireless, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, when it is determined that one or more Wi-Fi positioning system (WPS) tiles that are necessary to estimate a location of a mobile client device are not present in a WPS tile store on the mobile client device, or are present in the WPS tile store on the mobile client device but out of date, one or more new WPS tiles are requested from a remote server. Each WPS tile is a set of Wi-Fi access point data for Wi-Fi access points within a bounded geographical region. The one or more new WPS tiles are received from the remote server, and are cached in the WPS tile store on the mobile client device. Subsequent to the caching, one or more further locations of the mobile client device are estimated autonomously from the remote server, utilizing Wi-Fi access point data in the WPS tile store.