Patent ID: 9706364
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G01C,G01S,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: via one or more initial indoor-outdoor-status-determining factors, determining an indoor-outdoor status indicating whether a mobile computing device is indoors or outdoors; detecting that the mobile computing device is approaching an indoor-outdoor transition; responsive to detecting that the mobile computing device is approaching the indoor-outdoor transition, collecting one or more additional indoor-outdoor-status-determining factors; progressively collecting one or more further indoor-outdoor-status-determining factors and incorporating the one or more further indoor-outdoor-status-determining factors into indoor-outdoor status determination until a conclusive indoor-outdoor status is determined; and via the one or more additional indoor-outdoor-status-determining factors and the one or more further indoor-outdoor-status-determining factors, confirming or rejecting the indoor-outdoor status; wherein: the one or more further indoor-outdoor-status-determining factors comprise an activity detection; the activity detection indicates a moving activity; and incorporating the activity detection into the indoor-outdoor status determination results in a conclusive outdoor indoor-outdoor status.