Patent ID: 9578596
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: initiating a wireless scan for identifiable access points (APs) within communication range of a mobile device; determining an access point (AP) density based at least in part on the wireless scan, wherein the AP density indicates a number of APs within a geographic region that includes a location of the mobile device, and wherein the number of APs includes the identifiable APs; determining, by one or more computers comprising one or more processors, an amount of data storage of the mobile device to allocate for storing AP identifying information associated with the number of APs, wherein the AP identifying information comprises Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of the APs, and wherein the amount of data storage is a function of the number of APs within the geographic region; receiving a portion of the AP identifying information; and determining at least one of the mobile device is in one or more additional geographic regions or the mobile device will be in the one or more additional geographic regions; determining first data storage; determining second data storage, wherein a first data access rate associated with the first data storage is greater than a second data access rate associated with the second data storage; allocating, by the one or more computers, the amount of data storage from the first data storage after determining the at least one of the mobile device is in the one or more additional geographic regions or the mobile device will be in the one or more additional geographic regions; and storing the portion of the AP identifying information in a first portion of the amount of data storage.