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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2011
Applicants:
Dino Natucci, Tacoma, WA (US);
Mark Inderhees, Bellevue, WA (US);
Robert Dufalo, Tacoma, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 3/02 (2006.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01); G01S 19/34 (2010.01); G01S 1/68 (2006.01); G01S 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/0252 (2013.01); G01S 1/00 (2013.01); G01S 1/68 (2013.01); G01S 5/0289 (2013.01); G01S 19/34 (2013.01);
Abstract
One disclosed example provides a method including compiling and storing on the computing device a list of positioning signals each associated with a geographic location, detecting one or more currently available positioning signals, comparing the one or more currently available positioning signals to the list of positioning signals, and if one or more currently available positioning signals matches one or more matching positioning signals stored in the list, then determining the current geographic location based upon the one or more matching stored positioning signals.