Patent ID: 9119168
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G01S,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device and from one or more first mobile devices, a set of locations, each location being associated with one or more access point identifiers, each access point identifier identifying an access point of a wireless communications network, each location being associated with one of the one or more devices and being a location at which the corresponding mobile device detected the one or more access points; determining, by the computing device, a geographic location associated with each of the one or more access points based on the received set of locations; selecting, by the computing device and from the one or more access points, an access point for location estimation, wherein selecting the access point is based on popularity of the access point, the popularity of the access point indicating a number of connections made between the one or more first mobile devices and the access point; and providing the geographic location associated with the selected access point and an identifier of the selected access point to a second mobile device for performing the location estimation.