Patent ID: 9507747
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G01S,G06F,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A mobile communication device, comprising: one or more wireless transmitters and receivers for communicating over a wireless communication network using one or more beacons associated with the wireless communication network; one or more processors for executing machine-executable instructions; one or more machine-readable storage media for storing the machine-executable instructions, the instructions including beacons models and position inference algorithms received from a service over the wireless communication network and cached on the mobile communication device, at least one of the beacons models being determined using crowd-sourced positioned observations in a training dataset, each of the crowd-sourced positioned observations including a set of beacons observed by one of a plurality of computing devices and an observation position of the computing device when the set of beacons is being observed; and processing logic configured, based on a set of observed beacons with which the one or more wireless transmitters and receivers communicate, to determine the location of the mobile communication device within a geographic area using at least one of the received and cached beacon models and position inference algorithms.