Patent ID: 8787188
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for tracking wireless access points from a computing device, the method comprising: scanning in a first scan to identify wireless access points that are within wireless communication of the computing device; scanning in a subsequent scan to identify wireless access points that are within wireless communication of the computing device; creating a group of wireless access points that includes a combination of displaying a list of user-selectable items that correspond to particular wireless access points from the group of wireless access points that have been identified in a period of multiple scans for wireless access points, the displayed list indicating that one or more of the particular wireless access points were identified in a prior scan and not identified in a most recent scan for wireless access points, wherein a time between the first scan and the subsequent scan is lengthened or shortened according to a distance traveled by the computing device.