Patent ID: 8792387

Claim:
A system for populating a mesh network model, comprising: a plurality of peer devices configured to transmit peer device signals by utilizing a wireless broadcasting procedure, wherein said plurality of peer devices includes wireless access points; and a plurality of mobile devices configured to wirelessly detect said peer device signals to produce wireless scan data corresponding to each of said plurality of peer devices, wherein said mesh network model is populated with location coordinates of said plurality of peer devices and said plurality of mobile devices by analyzing said wireless scan data, and wherein a first mobile device of said plurality of mobile devices utilizes said mesh network model to locate said first mobile device with reference to said location coordinates of said plurality of peer devices from said mesh network model, wherein said first mobile device is located based on location of an intervening mobile device along a signal path between said first mobile device and a second mobile device of said plurality of mobile devices, wherein location of said second mobile device is known.