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Methods and systems of continuously optimizing data in WiFi positioning systems. A location-based services system uses WiFi-enabled devices to monitor WiFi access points in a target area to indicate whether a WiFi access point has moved relative to its previously recorded location. A WiFi-enabled device...http://www.google.fr/patents/US8478297?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US8478297 - Continuous data optimization of moved access points in positioning systems
Numéro de publication US8478297 B2
Numéro de demande US 13/572,952
Date de publication 2 juil. 2013
Date de dépôt 13 août 2012
Date de priorité 29 oct. 2004
Autre référence de publication CA2600861A1, CA2600861C, EP1851979A2, EP1851979A4, EP2503832A2, EP2503832A3, US7474897, US7493127, US8140094, US8244272, US8538457, US9037162, US9398558, US20060240840, US20070004427, US20070004428, US20090149197, US20120178477, US20120309420, US20130072227, US20140080510, US20160323843, WO2007081356A2, WO2007081356A3
Numéro de publication 13572952, 572952, US 8478297 B2, US 8478297B2, US-B2-8478297, US8478297 B2, US8478297B2
Inventeurs Edward James MORGAN, Michael George Shean, Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz, Russel Kipp JONES
Citations de brevets (246), Citations hors brevets (146), Référencé par (24), Classifications (22), Événements juridiques (2)
US 8478297 B2
Methods and systems of continuously optimizing data in WiFi positioning systems. A location-based services system uses WiFi-enabled devices to monitor WiFi access points in a target area to indicate whether a WiFi access point has moved relative to its previously recorded location. A WiFi-enabled device communicates with WiFi access points within range of the WiFi-enabled device so that observed WiFi access points identify themselves. A reference database is accessed to obtain information specifying a recorded location for each observed WiFi access point in the target area. The recorded location information is used for each of the observed WiFi access points in conjunction with predefined rules to infer whether an observed WiFi access point has moved relative to its recorded location. The reference database is informed of the identity of any observed WiFi access point that is inferred to have moved.
1. A method of identifying a WiFi access point that is suspected to have moved relative to location information associated with the WiFi access point which is recorded in a reference database, the method comprising:
at least one of a mobile WiFi-enabled device and a server system in communication with the mobile WiFi-enabled device receiving information identifying at least one WiFi access point in range of the mobile WiFi-enabled device;
at least one of the mobile WiFi-enabled device and the server system in communication with the mobile WiFi-enabled device accessing a reference database to retrieve location information associated with the identified WiFi access point recorded in the reference database, the location information specifying a previously-determined approximate location of the identified WiFi access point;
at least one of the mobile WiFi-enabled device and the server system in communication with the mobile WiFi-enabled device comparing the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point to location information associated with WiFi access points observed by the mobile WiFi-enabled device during a period of time to infer whether the identified WiFi access point has moved from its previously-determined approximate location that is recorded in the reference database, the inferring including determining whether (a) the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point is more than a threshold distance from the location information associated with WiFi access points observed by the mobile WiFi-enabled device during the period of time or (b) the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point is within the threshold distance from the location information associated with WiFi access points observed by the mobile WiFi-enabled device during the period of time.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of the mobile WiFi-enabled device and the server system in communication with the mobile WiFi-enabled device indicating in the reference database as unreliable for position determination the identified WiFi access point inferred to have moved from its previously-determined approximate location upon the condition that the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point is more than the threshold distance from the location information associated with WiFi access points observed by the mobile WiFi-enabled device during the period of time.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the indication in the reference database is made upon inferring the identified WiFi access point has moved from its previously-determined approximate location.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference database is located remotely relative to the mobile WiFi-enabled device.
the mobile WiFi-enabled device indicating in the mobile WiFi-enabled device as unreliable for position determination the identified WiFi access point inferred to have moved from its previously-determined approximate location upon the condition that the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point is more than the threshold distance from the location information associated with WiFi access points observed by the mobile WiFi-enabled device during the period of time, the indicating in the mobile WiFi-enabled device occurring upon inferring the identified WiFi access point has moved from its previously-determined approximate location; and
at least one of the mobile WiFi-enabled device and the server system in communication with the mobile WiFi-enabled device indicating in the reference database as unreliable for position determination the identified WiFi access point inferred to have moved from its previously-determined approximate location upon the condition that the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point is more than the threshold distance from the location information associated with WiFi access points observed by the mobile WiFi-enabled device during the period of time, the indicating in the reference database occurring subsequent to the indicating in the mobile WiFi-enabled device.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference database is located on the mobile WiFi-enabled device.
7. The method of claim 6, further comprising the mobile WiFi-enabled device indicating in the reference database as unreliable for position determination the identified WiFi access point inferred to have moved from its previously-determined approximate location upon the condition that the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point is more than the threshold distance from the location information associated with WiFi access points observed by the mobile WiFi-enabled device during the period of time.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparing the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point to location information associated with WiFi access points observed by the mobile WiFi-enabled device includes (i) calculating a median location of the WiFi access points observed by the mobile WiFi-enabled device, and (ii) comparing the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point to the calculated median location.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparing the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point to location information associated with WiFi access points observed by the mobile WiFi-enabled device includes (i) determining clusters of observed WiFi access points, (ii) determining the cluster with the largest numbers of WiFi access points, (iii) calculating a reference point location from the average of the location information associated with the WiFi access points within the largest cluster, and (iv) comparing the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point to the reference point location.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further determines the velocity of the mobile WiFi-enabled device and wherein the threshold distance is based on the velocity of the mobile WiFi-enabled device.
11. The method of claim 1, further comprising estimating a geographic position of the WiFi access point that is inferred to have moved from its previously-determined approximate location.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising updating in the reference database the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point that is inferred to have moved from its previously-determined approximate location.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein the estimating the geographic position of the WiFi access point that is inferred to have moved from its previously-determined approximate location is based at least in part on location information associated with WiFi access points other than WiFi access points that are inferred to have moved from their corresponding previously-determined approximate locations.
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising updating in the reference database the recorded location information associated with the identified WiFi access point that is inferred to have moved from its previously-determined approximate location.
15. The method of claim 1, further comprising estimating a geographic position of the mobile WiFi-enabled device based on location information associated with WiFi access points other than the identified WiFi access point inferred to have moved from its previously-determined approximate location.
16. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference database is part of a location-based services system with a plurality of subscribers each having mobile WiFi-enabled devices with logic to determine the geographical position of the mobile WiFi-enabled device of the respective user and wherein the acts of identifying at least one WiFi access point, accessing the reference database, and comparing the recorded location information are repeatedly performed by the mobile WiFi-enabled devices of the plurality of subscribers using the location-based services system.
This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/359,154, filed Feb. 22, 2006, entitled Continuous Data Optimization of Moved Access Points in Positioning Systems, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,244,272, which claimed the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to U.S. Provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/654,811, filed on Feb. 22, 2005, entitled Continuous Data Optimization in Positioning System, and which was also a continuation-in-part of and claimed the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §120 to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/261,988, filed on Oct. 28, 2005, entitled Location-Based Services that Choose Location Algorithms Based on Number of Detected Access Points Within Range of User Device, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,305,245, which claimed the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to U.S. Provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/623,108, filed on Oct. 29, 2004, entitled Wireless Data Scanning Network for Building Location Beacon Database, the contents of each of which are incorporated herein.
The invention is generally related to location-based services and, more specifically, to methods of continuously optimizing or improving the quality of WiFi location data in such systems.
There have been some more recent alternative models developed to try and address the known issues with GPS, A-GPS and cell tower positioning. One of them, known as TV-GPS, utilizes signals from television broadcast towers. (See, e.g., Muthukrishnan, Maria Lijding, Paul Having a, Towards Smart Surroundings: Enabling Techniques and Technologies for Localization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3479, January 2Hazas, M., Scott, J., Krumm, J.: Location-Aware Computing Comes of Age. IEEE Computer, 37(2):95-97, February 2004 005, Pa005, Pages 350-362.) The concept relies on the fact that most metropolitan areas have 3 or more TV broadcast towers. A proprietary hardware chip receives TV signals from these various towers and uses the known positions of these towers as reference points. The challenges facing this model are the cost of the new hardware receiver and the limitations of using such a small set of reference points. For example, if a user is outside the perimeter of towers, the system has a difficult time providing reasonable accuracy. The classic example is a user along the shoreline. Since there are no TV towers out in the ocean, there is no way to provide reference symmetry among the reference points resulting in a calculated positioning well inland of the user.
There have been a number of commercial offerings of Wi-Fi location systems targeted at indoor positioning. (See, e.g., Kavitha Muthukrishnan, Maria Lijding, Paul Having a, Towards Smart Surroundings: Enabling Techniques and Technologies for Localization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3479, January 2Hazas, M., Scott, J., Krumm, J.: Location-Aware Computing Comes of Age. IEEE Computer, 37(2):95-97, February 2004 005, Pa005, Pages 350-362.) These systems are designed to address asset and people tracking within a controlled environment like a corporate campus, a hospital facility or a shipping yard. The classic example is having a system that can monitor the exact location of the crash cart within the hospital so that when there is a cardiac arrest the hospital staff doesn't waste time locating the device. The accuracy requirements for these use cases are very demanding typically calling for 1-3 meter accuracy. These systems use a variety of techniques to fine tune their accuracy including conducting detailed site surveys of every square foot of the campus to measure radio signal propagation. They also require a constant network connection so that the access point and the client radio can exchange synchronization information similar to how A-GPS works. While these systems are becoming more reliable for these indoor use cases, they are ineffective in any wide-area deployment. It is impossible to conduct the kind of detailed site survey required across an entire city and there is no way to rely on a constant communication channel with 802.11 access points across an entire metropolitan area to the extent required by these systems. Most importantly outdoor radio propagation is fundamentally different than indoor radio propagation rendering these indoor positioning algorithms almost useless in a wide-area scenario.
The invention provides methods and systems of continuously optimizing data in WiFi positioning systems. For example, data is monitored to infer whether a WiFi access point has moved or is new. In this fashion, data is continuously optimized. Likewise, suspect data may be avoided when determining the position of the WiFi-enabled device using such a system.
Under one aspect of the invention, a location-based services system uses WiFi-enabled devices to monitor WiFi access points in a target area to indicate whether a WiFi access point has moved relative to its previously recorded location. A WiFi-enabled device communicates with WiFi access points within range of the WiFi-enabled device so that observed WiFi access points identify themselves; A reference database is accessed to obtain information specifying a recorded location for each observed WiFi access point in the target area. The recorded location information is used for each of the observed WiFi access points in conjunction with predefined rules to infer whether an observed WiFi access point has moved relative to its recorded location. The reference database is informed of the identity of any observed WiFi access point that is inferred to have moved.
Under another aspect of the invention, the predefined rules include (i) rules to identify clusters of observed WiFi access points, (ii) rules to determine the cluster with the largest number of WiFi access points, (iii) rules to calculate a reference point location from the average of the recorded locations for the observed WiFi access points within the largest cluster; and (iv) rules to infer as moved any observed WiFi access point whose recorded location stored in the reference database is more than a threshold distance from the reference point.
Under another aspect of the invention, the predefined rules include (i) rules to calculate a median location of the observed WiFi access points, and (ii) rules to identify as suspect any observed WiFi access point whose position stored in the reference database is more than a threshold distance from the median location.
Under another aspect of the invention, the predefined rules include (i) rules to store a recent position of the WiFi-enabled device as a reference point, and (ii) rules to identify as suspect any observed WiFi access point whose position stored in the reference database is more than a threshold distance from the median location.
Under another aspect of the invention, the further determines the velocity of WiFi-enabled device and wherein the threshold distance is selected based on the velocity of the WiFi-enabled device.
Under another aspect of the invention, the reference database is located remotely relative to the WiFi-enabled device.
Under another aspect of the invention, the Wi-Fi access points identified as suspect are marked in the reference database immediately.
Under another aspect of the invention, the WiFi access points identified as suspect in the WiFi-enabled device and marked in the reference database at a later time.
Under another aspect of the invention, the reference database is part of a location-based services system with a large plurality of subscribers each having WiFi-enabled devices with logic to determine the geographical position of the WiFi-enabled device of the respective user and wherein acts of identifying moved access points are repeatedly performed by the large plurality of WiFi-enabled devices using the system.
FIG. 2 depicts an exemplary architecture of positioning software according to certain embodiments of the invention;
FIG. 3 depicts the data transfer process in certain client device centric embodiments;
FIG. 4 depicts the data transfer process in certain network centric embodiments;
FIG. 5 depicts the data flows for the quality filtering and feedback process; and
FIG. 6 depicts the operation of the Adaptive Filter in certain embodiments.
Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a system and a methodology for continuously maintaining and updating location data in a WiFi positioning system (WPS) using public and private 802.11 access points. Preferably, clients using location data gathered by the system use techniques to avoid erroneous data in determining the Wi-Fi positions and use newly-discovered position information to improve the quality of previously gathered and determined position information. Certain embodiments communicate with the central location Access Point Reference Database to provide the location of newly discovered access points. Other embodiments notify the central location Access Point Reference Database of access points whose readings fall outside the bounds of what should be expected, based on previous readings of their location. Access points whose readings fall outside of what should be expected can be marked as suspect and filtered out of the triangulation formula so as not to introduce bad data into the location calculation.
Preferred embodiments of the invention build on techniques, systems and methods disclosed in earlier filed applications, including but not limited to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/261,988, filed on Oct. 28, 2005, entitled Location-Based Services that Choose Location Algorithms Based on Number of Detected Access Points Within Range of User Device, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Those applications taught specific ways to gather high quality location data for WiFi access points so that such data may be used in location based services to determine the geographic position of a WiFi-enabled device utilizing such services. In the present case, new techniques are disclosed for continuously monitoring and improving such data, for example by users detecting new access points in a target area or inferring that access points have moved. The present techniques, however, are not limited to systems and methods disclosed in the incorporated patent applications. Instead those applications disclose but one framework or context in which the present techniques may be implemented. Thus, while reference to such systems and applications may be helpful, it is not believed necessary to understand the present embodiments or inventions.
Under one embodiment of the invention, a WPS client device scans for access points to determine the physical location of the WPS client device, then it calculates the quality of the current access point locations in the Access Point Reference Database by comparing the observed readings against the recorded readings in the database. If the client determines that the observed readings fall outside the bounds of what should be expected based on the recorded readings, then the access point is marked as suspect. That suspect reading is logged into a feedback system for reporting back to the central location Access Point Reference Database.
Under another embodiment of the invention, a WPS client device filters identified suspect access points out of the triangulation calculation of the WPS client device in real time so as not to introduce bad data into the location calculation.
Under another embodiment of the invention, a WPS client device scans for access points to determine the physical location of the device and identifies access points that do not exist in the current Access Point Reference Database. After the known access points are used to calculate the device's current location, those newly found access points are recorded back to the central location Access Point Reference Database using the calculated location of the known access points to help determine their position, along with the observed power reading.
Under another embodiment of the invention, a device centric WPS client device periodically connects to the central location Access Point Reference Database to download the latest access point data. The WPS client device also uploads all feedback data about newly observed access points and suspect access points. This data is then fed into the central location Access Point Reference Database processing to recalibrate the overall system.
Under another embodiment of the invention, a network centric WPS client device directly records feedback data about newly observed access points and suspect access points into the central location Access Point Reference Database in real time.
By enlisting the WPS client device to continuously update the Access Point Reference Database with information on new and suspect access points, the WiFi positioning system provides higher quality data than a system scanned solely by the provider. Over time, WiFi access points are continually added and moved. Embodiments of the described invention provide systems and methods to ensure that the Access Point Reference Database is self-healing and self-expanding, providing optimal positioning data that continually reflects additions and changes to available access points. As more user client devices are deployed, the quality of the Access Point Reference Database improves because information in the database is updated more frequently.
FIG. 1 depicts a portion of a preferred embodiment of a Wi-Fi positioning system (WPS). The positioning system includes positioning software [103] that resides on a user-computing device [101]. Throughout a particular coverage area there are fixed wireless access points [102] that broadcast information using control/common channel broadcast signals. The client device monitors the broadcast signal or requests its transmission via a probe request. Each access point contains a unique hardware identifier known as a MAC address. The client positioning software receives signal beacons or probe responses from the 802.11 access points in range and calculates the geographic location of the computing device using characteristics from the received signal beacons or probe responses.
The positioning software is described in greater detail with reference to FIG. 2, which depicts exemplary components of positioning software 103. Typically, in the user device embodiment of FIG. 1 there is an application or service [201] that utilizes location readings to provide some value to an end user (for example, driving directions). This location application makes a request of the positioning software for the location of the device at that particular moment. The location application can be initiated continuously every elapsed period of time (every 1 second for example) or one time on demand by another application or user.
In FIG. 2, the location application makes a request of the positioning software to interrogate all access points within range at a particular moment and to determine which access points are suspect because the observed data does not correspond to the calculated location in the Reference Database. The information on suspect access points collected by the location application is used to optimize the position information in the Access Point Reference Database either in real time or at some later time.
In the embodiment depicted in FIG. 2, the location application or service request initiates the scanner [202], which makes a “scan request” to the 802.11 radio [203] on the device. The 802.11 radio sends out a probe request to all 802.11 access points [204] within range. According to the 802.11 protocol, those access points in receipt of a probe request will transmit a broadcast beacon containing information about the access point. That beacon includes the MAC address of the device, the network name, the precise version of the protocol that it supports and its security configuration along with information about how to connect to the device. The 802.11 radio collects this information from each access point that responds, calculates the received signal strength (“RSS”) of each access point observed, and sends the identification and RSS information back to the scanner.
The scanner passes this array of access points to the Locator [206] which checks the MAC addresses of each observed access point against the Access Point Reference Database [205]. This database can either be located on the device or remotely over a network connection. The Access Point Reference Database contains the raw 802.11 scanning data plus the calculated location for each access point that is known to the system. FIG. 5 describes the access point evaluation process in more detail. The list of observed access points [501] is obtained from the Scanner and the Locator [206] searches for each access point in the Access Point Reference Database. For each access point found in the Access Point Reference Database the recorded location is retrieved [502]. The Locator passes this collection of location information for known access points [502] along with the signal characteristics returned from each access point to the Quality Filter [207]. This filter determines if any of the access points have moved since they were added to the Access Point Reference Database and works continually to improve the overall system. The Quality Filter marks access points that fail the quality algorithm as “suspect” [504]. After removing bad data records, the Filter sends the remaining access points to the Location Calculation component [208]. Using the set of validated reference data from the Access Point Reference Database and the signal strength readings from the Scanner, the Location Calculation component computes the location of the device at that moment. The Location Calculation component also calculates the position of any newly observed access points [503] not found in the Access Point Reference Database. The raw scanning data and the location of new access points are stored in the Feedback File [212] as can be seen in FIG. 2. This feedback is either saved locally on the device for later transmission to the server or sent to the server in real time. Before location data for known access points is sent back to the Locator, it is processed by the Smoothing engine [209] which averages a past series of location readings to remove any erratic readings from the previous calculation. The adjusted location data is then sent back to the Locator.
The calculated location readings produced by the Locator are communicated to these location-based applications [201] through the Application Interface [210] which includes an application programming interface (API) or via a virtual GPS capability [211]. GPS receivers communicate their location readings using proprietary messages or using the location standard like the one developed by the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA). Connecting into the device using a standard interface such as a COM port on the machine retrieves the messages. Certain embodiments of the invention include a virtual GPS capability that allows any GPS compatible application to communicate with this new positioning system without have to alter the communication model or messages.
The location calculations are produced using a series of positioning algorithms intended to turn noisy data flows into reliable and steady location readings. The client software compares the list of observed access points along with their calculated signal strengths to weight the location of user to determine precise location of the device user. A variety of techniques are employed including simple signal strength weighted average models, nearest neighbor models combined with triangulation techniques and adaptive smoothing based on device velocity. Different algorithms perform better under different scenarios and tend to be used together in hybrid deployments to product the most accurate final readings. Preferred embodiments of the invention can use a number of positioning algorithms. The decision of which algorithm to use is driven by the number of access points observed and the user case application using it. The filtering models differ from traditional positioning systems since traditional systems rely on known reference points that never move. In the model of preferred embodiments, this assumption of fixed locations of access points is not made; the access points are not owned by the positioning system so they may move or be taken offline. The filtering techniques assume that some access points may no longer be located in the same place and could cause a bad location calculation. So the filtering algorithms attempt to isolate the access points that have moved since their position was recorded. The filters are dynamic and change based on the number of access points observed at that moment. The smoothing algorithms include simple position averaging as well as advanced Bayesian logic including particle filters. The velocity algorithms calculate device speed by estimating the Doppler effect from the signal strength observations of each access point.
Optimizing the Quality of Current Access Point Data
The Quality Filter [207] component compares the data from the observed access points against the known access points in a local or remote Access Point Reference Database. For those observed access points whose MAC address is located in the Access Point Reference Database, the Quality Filter component then compares the information observed with the location of the access points stored in the database.
The Quality Filter's [207] high level functionality is to remove suspect access points from location calculation and as the result, increase the accuracy of location estimation. The Quality Filter uses only access points that are located in the Access Point Reference Database. In some cases the Quality Filter will have no current client device location history to utilize for quality determination. The process for identifying suspect access points for a no-history location estimation is based on the location of the biggest cluster of the access points stored in the database. The location of all the observed access points that are recorded in the Access Point Reference Database is considered and the average location of the biggest cluster of access points is used as the reference point. A cluster refers to distance-based clustering, which is a group of access points with the distance of each access point from at least one more access point in the cluster less than a threshold. The clustering algorithm is shown as follows and it is read as “Node n belongs to cluster K, if there is at least one element in cluster K like ni, which its distance from n is less than the threshold”:
∃n iε(clusterK),|n−n i |<d threshold
nε(clusterK)
If no cluster can be found then the mathematical median of the access points serves as the best estimate of the distance average of a majority of the access points.
If the distance of any individual access point to the reference point is calculated to be more than a given distance, it is ruled as a suspect access point and recorded in the Feedback File to be sent back to the Access Point Reference Database. Those suspect access points are then removed from the list of access points used to calculate the location of the user device.
Identifying suspect access points for a client device when there is a history of user movement is based on the previous location of the client device. An exemplary implementation of this determination is shown in FIG. 6. In an embodiment where there is location history, the client device location calculation is calculated continuously every period of time, usually once every second. If the distance of any individual observed access point [602] to that historical reference point (the prior location calculation) is more than a given distance [603], then it is ruled as a suspect access point, added to the Feedback File and removed from calculation. The intent of this filter is to try and use the access points that are nearest to the user/device [601] to provide the highest potential accuracy. This filter is called an adaptive filter since the threshold distance to filter suspect access points is changed dynamically. The threshold distance, which is used to identify suspect access points, is changed dynamically based on the number of access points that are considered of good quality to calculate location of the client device. Therefore, the adaptive filter contains two factors, 1) the minimum number of required access points to locate a user device and 2) the minimum threshold of distance to identify suspect access points. The adaptive filter starts with the minimum threshold of distance. If number of access points within that distance is above the minimum number of access points necessary to calculate the client location, then location of the device is calculated. For example, if we find five access points which are within 20 meters of the prior reading, then we filter out all observed access points greater than 20 meters. If the filter criteria is not met then the adaptive filter threshold [603] of the distance is increased until the minimum number of access points is considered or the maximum acceptable distance is reached, and then the access points within the threshold distance are used to locate the user device. If no access point can be located within the maximum threshold of distance from the previous location, then no location is calculated.
The positioning software continues to attempt to locate the device based on its previous location up to a maximum given duration of time. During this timeout period, if no location can be determined, the maximum threshold of distance is adjusted using the calculated velocity of the device. If the vehicle is known to accelerate at a maximum of 6 m/s/s and it was previously calculated as traveling at 20 mph, then it would not possible be more than 42 meters away from the last location two seconds later. This 42 meter distance limit is used to adjust the outer boundary of the distance threshold if the earlier time period adapter filters did not work. If it is too difficult to calculate the actual velocity of client device, then a maximum velocity threshold is used. If any access point is calculated to be more than the maximum threshold of distance away from the reference point, it is marked as “suspect” and logged to the Feedback File. If no access point can be located within the maximum threshold of the distance during the timeout period, then the adaptive filter ignores the history and treats the next instance of location determination as a no-history case and returns back to the clustering filter described previously.
Real-Time Filtering of Suspect Access Points
Suspect access points are removed from the inputs into the triangulation calculation and only valid access point locations are used to triangulate the device position [502]. The inputs to the triangulation algorithm are the set of valid access points returned from the Quality Filter [207]. The triangulation component reads in the list of valid observed access point locations along with their respective signal strengths and calculates a latitude and longitude along with a Horizontal Position Error (an estimate of the accuracy error at that moment). The triangulation process also takes into consideration prior positions to add additional filters to the scanning in order to apply a smoothing process. By filtering out suspect access points we provide the triangulation algorithm a more reliable set of reference points to calculate against. Since access points can move at any time, Positioning Software must account for the dynamic nature of the reference points. Without conducting filtering, the calculated location could result in a position hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Suspect access points are not discarded completely. Rather their newly observed locations are added back to the database via the Feedback File [212] with different attributes indicating it as suspect, allowing the server to determine whether to move the official location of that access point or just keep it on hold until its new location can be verified. By keeping it on hold, this access point will not corrupt any other user's location calculation.
Adding New Access Point Data
Observed access points found in the Access Point Reference Database of known access points are used to calculate the location of the client device after the elimination of suspect access points. Observed access points whose MAC address are not found in the Access Point Reference Database represent new access points [302][503] added since the database was created or updated. Those observed access points not found in the known Access Point Reference Database are added to the Feedback File as new access points. Those newly found access points are marked with the location of the client device calculated by the positioning system itself along with the observed signal strengths. This situation can occur in a number of scenarios. In many cases a new access point is purchased and deployed in the vicinity since the last physical scanning by the scanning fleet. This is most often the case due to the rapid expansion of Wi-Fi. In other cases, an access point may be situated deep in the center of a building and the scanning fleet was unable to detect that access point from the street. Another example is that an access point may be located up on a high floor of a tall building. These access points may be difficult to detect from down on the street where the scanning fleet operates, but may be received by client devices that pass closer to the building by users on foot or that enter the building itself.
By having the system “self-expand” in this manner, the coverage area of the system slowly expands deep into buildings and upwards in tall buildings. It also leverages the large number of new access points that are deployed every day across the world.
Updating the Central Database Server
With reference to FIG. 3, in some embodiments the Access Point Reference Database of known access points will be located on a central network server remote from the client device. The provisioning of this connection could be done via any available network connection and is managed by the Data Exchange Component [303]. Once authenticated, the client device [103] identifies all the suspect and new access point data from the local storage Feedback Files [212] and uploads that data to the Access Point Reference Database [205].
In other embodiments the client device is connected to the Access Point Reference Database all the time using a network connection. FIG. 4 describes how the Network Centric embodiment works. Rather than store the reference data locally, the Locator [201] uses a set of Real-Time Network interfaces [401] to communicate with the Access Point Reference Database. The Locator sends the list of observed access points to the network interface which returns the list of observed access points and whether the database has recorded locations or whether the access points are newly found. The process continues as before with the Quality Filter marking suspect access points but the list of suspect access points is sent to the Access Point Reference Database in real-time. After the Calculation module determines the user device's location, the list of newly found access points is marked with the current location and sent back to the database in real-time. This allows the database to be up to date at all times and to remove the need for a Data Exchange Component.
After receiving feedback data, in either the device centric or the network centric model, the Access Point Reference Database determines whether to place suspect access points ‘on hold’ so as to prevent them from corrupting another user device's location request. There are a number of techniques being explored to optimize how this feedback data of suspect access points will be used to improve the overall quality of the database. There may be a voting scheme by which access points are moved to new positions if more than one user locates the access point in its new location. If only one user has marked the access point as suspect then the access point is marked as a low quality reading in its new position. Once its new position is validated by another user then the quality attribute of the access point is increased to reflect the higher level of confidence the system has in the new position. The more people who corroborate the access point's new position the higher the quality level. The system's client software then favors access points with high quality ratings over those that have lower quality ratings.
In either the device centric or the network centric model, the Access Point Reference Database collects the access point identifying information, client device location and access point signal strength information of newly discovered access points from client devices. Once an acceptable number of readings of newly discovered access points is collected by the Access Point Reference Database, it can calculate a location for the new access points based on the systems and methods described in the related applications. The newly discovered access points can then be supplied to client devices for use in their location calculation.
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