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Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 18, 2014
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Meghna Agrawal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Praveen Dua, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/00 (2009.01); A01K 1/01 (2006.01); A47L 13/52 (2006.01); E01H 1/00 (2006.01); E01H 5/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/00 (2013.01); A01K 1/01 (2013.01); A01K 1/0114 (2013.01); A47L 13/52 (2013.01); E01H 1/006 (2013.01); E01H 5/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for network-based positioning of a mobile device as described herein includes selecting a first set of access points (APs) to take first positioning measurements from the mobile device; obtaining the first positioning measurements from the first set of APs; selecting, based on the first positioning measurements, a second set of APs to take second positioning measurements from the mobile device; obtaining the second positioning measurements from the second set of APs; and determining a location of the mobile device based on the first positioning measurements and the second positioning measurements.


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