Patent ID: 9338608
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G01C,G01S,H04M,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing an enhanced location based service via a mobile device, including: determining, by a processor of the mobile device, whether the mobile device is currently connected to a communications network; establishing connections, via an antenna of the mobile device, to a plurality of mobile devices to form a communication group in response to determining that the mobile device is not currently connected to the communications network; receiving distance information from the plurality of mobile devices in the communication group; generating a location estimation set based on the received distance information; and transmitting the generated location estimate set to one or more of the plurality of mobile devices in the communication group for relay to a network resource, wherein generating the location estimation set comprises calculating a current coordinate position of the mobile device based on a distance of the mobile device from each of the plurality of mobile devices in the communication group.