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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
May. 21, 2013
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Kosol Jintaseranee, Millbrae, CA (US);
Mark Evans, El Granada, CA (US);
Hui Zang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sara Gatmir-Motahari, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for augmenting call data information to determine a location of a wireless communication device. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving wireless signals transmitted from a plurality of base stations and determining signal strengths for at least some of the wireless signals. The method further provides identifying at least three geographically diverse ones of the base stations having signal strengths that satisfy a location-determination strength threshold. The method further provides transmitting base station identifiers and associated signal strengths for the geographically diverse base stations.