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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2015
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Michael P. McMullen, Leawood, KS (US);
Roger D. Bartlett, Merriam, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A wireless communication device (WCD) stores a location of a portable WAP and is configured to report the stored location of the portable WAP to a location-based service provider (LBSP) when the WCD is within coverage of the portable WAP and requests a location-based service from the LBSP. While the WCD is within coverage of the portable WAP, the WCD (i) uses a wireless-communication interface to detect that the WCD is also within one or more particular cellular coverage areas and (ii) stores a correlation between the portable WAP and the one or more particular cellular coverage areas. Thereafter, while the WCD is again within coverage of the portable WAP, the WCD determines that the WCD is not within coverage of the one or more particular cellular coverage areas. In response, the WCD reconfigures itself to not report the stored location of the portable WAP to the LBSP when the WCD requests the location-based service.