Patent ID: 11963128
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A computer-implemented location evaluation method, comprising:
receiving a client query from a mobile device;
determining one or more estimated current locations for the mobile device based on IP address information of the mobile device;
evaluating one or more responses to the client query based on the determined one or more estimated current locations for the mobile device;
determining one or more identifiers for one or more respective candidate wireless stations associated with the one or more estimated current locations of the mobile device;
transmitting a given one of the one or more responses to the client query and one or more identifiers for one or more respective candidate wireless stations, for processing at the mobile device;
in response to the transmitting, receiving selected log data from the mobile device, the selected log data having been generated at the mobile device based on a determination of whether an identifier for a wireless station to which the mobile device is connected corresponds to an identifier of at least one of the candidate wireless stations; and
determining, from the received selected log data, an estimated current location of the mobile device that is based on the IP address information of the mobile device is correct, comprising determining whether an accuracy of the one or more estimated current locations of the mobile device based on whether the identifier for the wireless station to which the mobile device is connected corresponds to the identifier of the at least one of the candidate wireless stations.