Patent ID: 8971913
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G01S,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method to determine information about a wireless access point, the method comprising: receiving location assistance information at one or more mobile stations for assisting in calculating given locations of the one or more mobile stations, the location assistance information being received from one or more servers through one or more first wireless access points of a wireless cellular network; receiving, by the one or more mobile stations, one or more wireless signals from a second wireless access point indicating an identity of the second wireless access point; collecting data specifying a plurality of locations at which wireless signals transmitted from the second wireless access point of a wireless local area network are received by the one or more mobile stations; determining location information about the second wireless access point from the collected data and the given locations; and transmitting the determined location information and the identity of the second wireless access point to the one or more servers through the wireless cellular network to enable the one or more servers to associate the identity of the second wireless access point with the determined location information.