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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2011
Applicants:

Allan Thomson, Pleasanton, CA (US);

David Sheldon Stephenson, San Jose, CA (US);

James Martin Polk, Colleyville, TX (US);

Inventors:

Allan Thomson, Pleasanton, CA (US);

David Sheldon Stephenson, San Jose, CA (US);

James Martin Polk, Colleyville, TX (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to providing location services in a wireless network. According to one implementation of the present invention, the wireless network infrastructure provides high-accuracy location information via location services to wireless clients. In one embodiment, during an advertisement phase, a location server provides a list of available location services to wireless clients via a central controller. In another embodiment, during a presentation phase, a driver of the wireless client presents the available location services to one or more applications of the wireless client. In another embodiment, during a request phase, the driver transmits a location service request to the central controller, which passes the location service request to the location server.


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