Patent ID: 7202816
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: G01C,G01S,G08G

Abstract:
1. A system that utilizes approximately determined locations of a device, the system is recorded on a computer-readable medium and capable of execution by a computer, comprising: a signal processor that receives a plurality of ambient signals; an analysis processor that infers at least one approximate location of a device based, in part, on relative signal strengths of at least a subset of the ambient signals, the analysis processor employs an algorithm that infers the approximate location of the device by scanning a list of radio frequencies, resulting in a corresponding vector of measured signal strengths, s=(s wherein the rank vector is insensitive to any monotonically increasing function of elements of s, such that the rank vector does not require absolute signal strength to determine the approximate location of the device; and a location association processor that utilizes the approximate location of the device to provide geocentric device specific resource management that includes automatically configuring the device with a time zone and a language based on the approximate location.