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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2014
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Yuk Lun Li, Morganville, NJ (US);
Xin Ren, Edison, NJ (US);
Zheng Zhao, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Nanjun Qian, Princeton, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Examples are provided that enable a cellular network location assist to confirm a position determined using a sensor of a mobile device. As a result of global positioning system signals becoming unavailable due to the mobile device traveling indoors, the mobile device implements a sensor-based position determination that provides a position of the mobile device as the mobile device travels about a location. In order to confirm the reliability of the sensor-based position determination, the mobile device, after passage of time or after traveling some estimated distance, requests location assistance indications from the cellular network. A processor of the mobile device receives the location assistance indications and generates a directional vector based on several of the location assistance indications. Using the directional vector, the processor confirms the reliability of the dead reckoning position.