Patent ID: 8295846
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: G01S,Y02D

Abstract:
1. Consumer electronics (CE) device comprising: housing bearing a processor and a visual display, the processor controlling the display; position sensor in the housing and generating geographic position signals; wireless receiver in the housing and receiving signals from a wireless access point (AP) configured to communicate with a wide area network and located at a current AP location; the processor using the signals from the position sensor and wireless receiver to generate a correlation of wireless access point (AP) communication conditions with respective locations in a building, the processor presenting an indication on the display of a suggested location of the AP that is different from the current AP location, wherein the suggested location of the AP is a location that is geographically between plural positions of equally good communication conditions, or wherein the suggested location of the AP is a furthest location from the current AP location having a corresponding communication condition that meets or exceeds a minimum threshold, wherein the processor presents on the display a map illustrating communication conditions as a function of position in the building.