Patent ID: 8228234

Claim:
A mobile computing device comprising: a housing; a processor provided within the housing; and a location-determining system configured to determine a current location of the mobile computing device at a first rate, wherein the location determining system is configured to adjust the first rate to a different second rate based on a threshold distance value and a distance from the current location to an anticipated future location of the mobile computing device, wherein the location determining system is configured to adjust the first rate to the different second rate when the distance from the current location to the future location exceeds a threshold distance value, wherein the second rate is slower than the first rate, and the location determining system is configured to monitor a street density along a route traveled by the mobile computing device and adjust the second rate back to the first rate upon determining that a street density of a geographic area exceeds a threshold density value; wherein power consumption associated with the first rate is different than power consumption associated with the second rate.