Patent ID: 9519044
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G01S,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a first computing device, a first location request for an estimated location of a target computing device; gathering, by the first computing device, a set of local signal readings from a local memory of the first computing device, the set of local signal readings describing wireless communication signals received from the target computing device; receiving, from a tracking management system, a set of cloud stored signal readings describing wireless communication signals received from the target computing device, the set of cloud stored signal readings including at least one signal readings not included in the set of locally stored signal readings, and the at least one signal reading describing a wireless communication signal received from the target computing device by a second computing device, different than the first computing device; selecting, by the first computing device, a set of two or more signal readings from the set of local signal readings and the set of cloud stored signal readings, yielding a set of selected signal readings, wherein the set of selected signal readings includes at least a first signal reading from the set of local signal readings and a second signal reading from the set of cloud stored signal readings; and determining, by the first computing device, the estimated location of the target computing device based on the set of selected signal readings.