Patent ID: 9609620
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G01S,H04W

Claim:
1. A server for acquiring and distributing access point location data via crowdsourcing, the server comprising: a communication interface; a memory; and a processing unit communicatively coupled with the communication interface and the memory, the processing unit configured to cause the server to: receive, via the communication interface, a plurality of measurements pertaining to a plurality of wireless access points, the plurality of measurements received from one or more mobile devices; determine a priority value for each tile of a plurality of tiles by: receive, from a requesting mobile device, a request for tile information; select a subset of the plurality of tiles based on the determined priority value for each of the plurality of tiles; and send, via the communication interface to the requesting mobile device, information for each tile of the selected subset of the plurality of tiles, wherein, for each tile, the information for the respective tile comprises location information regarding at least one wireless access point located in the geographical area covered by the respective tile, wherein the information for the tile enables location determination for mobile devices located in the geographic area covered by the respective tile.