Patent ID: 9037160
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing contextual information about a location of a wireless-enabled mobile device, the method comprising: receiving a request that includes information identifying wireless signal beacons range of the wireless-enabled mobile device; determining, at the wireless enabled mobile device or a server in communication with the wireless-enabled mobile device, beacon attributes associated with the wireless signal beacons in range of the wireless-enabled mobile device, the beacon attributes retrieved from a database that maintains attribute data; determining, at the wireless enabled mobile device or the server in communication with the wireless-enabled mobile device, one or more extended reverse geocoding attributes that describe a place of the wireless-enabled mobile device by filtering or clustering beacon attributes associated with the set of wireless signal beacons; returning a response that includes the one or more extended reverse geocoding attributes, wherein the one or more extended reverse geocoding attributes include at least one attribute other than a civil address.