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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2015
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc., Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Aakanksha Chowdhery, Seattle, WA (US);
Mariya Zheleva, Albany, NY (US);
Ranveer Chandra, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ashish Kapoor, Kirkland, WA (US);
Paul Garnett, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/00 (2015.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04B 17/391 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04B 17/391 (2015.01);
Abstract
A method for monitoring radio frequency (RF) transmitters in an environment, that fits a probability mixture model (PMM) comprising a plurality of probability density functions (PDFs) at least two of which are of a different type, to RF power measurements of RF signals received in the environment to determine a number and characteristics of RF transmitters operating in the environment.