Patent ID: 8433334
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: G01S,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method executed by a computer, comprising: receiving a plurality of sets of locations from first mobile devices that are each located within a communication range of an access point of a wireless communications network, each set of locations corresponding to a distinct access point; determining a geographic location associated with each access point based on an average of the received set of locations corresponding to the access point; assigning the geographic location associated with each access point to a cell on a geographic grid; for each cell on the geographic grid, ranking geographic locations assigned to the cell based on a number of locations in the received set of the corresponding access point, wherein a geographic location corresponding to an access point associated with a larger set of locations receives a higher ranking; filtering the geographic locations assigned to each cell, including preserving a group of one or more of geographic locations that include the highest ranking geographic location for the cell; and providing the geographic location associated with the access point and geographic locations of access points assigned to cells neighboring the cell on the geographic grid to a second mobile device connected to the access point.