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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:
Nov. 14, 2017

Filed:

May. 10, 2016
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Piero Zappi, San Diego, CA (US);

Ashwin Swaminathan, San Diego, CA (US);

Santiago Mazuelas, San Diego, CA (US);

Roy Franklin Quick, Jr., San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/02 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0258 (2013.01); H04L 25/0212 (2013.01); H04L 25/0222 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 52/0254 (2013.01); H04M 2250/10 (2013.01); H04M 2250/12 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

A detector in a mobile device receives input from a modem, determines whether the mobile device is indoor or outdoor based on the modem-supplied input, and stores in memory a binary value to indicate an indoor-outdoor state. In some embodiments, the detector extracts a feature from the modem-supplied input, and uses the extracted feature with a statistical classifier, to output an indoor-outdoor state and an associated probability of correctness of the indoor-outdoor state. In other embodiments, the detector determines whether the mobile device is indoor or outdoor based at least on the feature extracted to characterize temporal distribution of the wireless signal, by using a prior value of the state being indoor or outdoor.


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