Patent ID: 11877210
Assignee: ORANGE
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A device for assisting with the positioning of an equipment capable of connecting to a Wi-Fi local area network of a home gateway of a user, the positioning assistance device being movable in a home environment of the user, the positioning assistance device comprising at least one processor configured so as to:
receive, from the home gateway, and at successive time intervals, information representative of a level of a Wi-Fi signal emitted by the device and received by the home gateway,
calculate an average signal level value from signal levels received by the device during a time window of a determined duration,
compare the average signal level value with a value of at least one determined threshold,
said compare comprising,
when said average value is greater than said value of the determined threshold, determining that the mobile terminal is located in a first area of the home environment,
when said average value is less than or equal to said value of the determined threshold, determining that the mobile terminal is located in a second area of the home environment,
wherein the first area and the second area correspond respectively to an area said to be too close to the home gateway and an area said to be optimum with respect to the home gateway, when the determined threshold corresponds to a first threshold,
wherein the first area and the second area correspond respectively to an area said to be optimum with respect to the home gateway and to an area said to be too far away from the home gateway, when the determined threshold corresponds to a second threshold, and
wherein the value of the first threshold is greater than the value of the second threshold, and

output, to a user of the device, information representative of the area of the home environment in which the device is located with respect to the home gateway, on the basis of the results of the comparison.