Patent ID: 9554243
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. Logic for providing one or more location services provided by a network infrastructure, the logic encoded in one or more non-transitory computer readable media for execution and when executed operable to: transmit, using a wireless network interface, one or more wireless advertisements to a wireless client station, wherein the one or more wireless advertisements are wireless local area network (WLAN) management frames and identify one or more location services contained in information elements appended to the WLAN management frames that an application hosted on the wireless client station can access to receive geographic coordinates corresponding to a location of the wireless client station, the wireless advertisements operable to provide information relating to the one or more location services accessible to one or more applications hosted on the wireless client station; receive, responsive to a selection of one or more location services by a first application of the one or more applications, a location service request identifying one or more of the selected location services, the selection of the one or more location services facilitated by one or more application programming interfaces; forward the location service request to a location server; and generate path loss measurement parameters (PLM) including a radio transmission schedule including one or more of an interval between bursts, a number of bursts, and one or more radio channels on which to transmit.