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Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2011
Applicants:

Ehud Rivlin, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Abhijit Ogale, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ehud Rivlin, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Abhijit Ogale, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/04 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/043 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for determining the location of a mobile device is provided. Such a method includes receiving an interior map, determining a first location to be an absolute location of a mobile communication device, locating the absolute location at a first position on the interior map, relocating the mobile communication device to a second location, estimating the second location of the mobile communication device based on an output of one or more sensors and modifying, using a computer-based system, the estimated second location based on a comparison of the estimated second location to the interior map.


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