Patent ID: 7742456

Claim:
A method, comprising: providing a wireless access point configured to communicate to a plurality of mobile units through a wireless communication protocol and further configured to receive a frequency band in addition to communicating to the plurality of mobile units; receiving, by the wireless access point, a signal encompassing multiple activities occurring at the same time from a plurality of wireless devices operating on multiple different frequencies within the frequency band having a predetermined bandwidth, the multiple activities being received simultaneously by the wireless access point; processing the signal to generate a plurality of subsignals using a predetermined signal processing procedure; determining an energy level of a particular subsignal of the plurality of subsignals; identifying a signal signature of the particular subsignal, the signal signature being indicative of a corresponding wireless device of a local area network; responsive to identifying the signal signature of the wireless device of the local area network, demodulating the signal to determine a source and a destination associated with the signal; determining whether the source and the destination each comprise authorized devices; and determining a location of the corresponding wireless device as a function of the energy level and a predetermined locationing procedure, wherein the location of the corresponding wireless device is determined only when the energy level is greater than a predetermined threshold level corresponding to a predetermined network condition.