Patent ID: 8589532

Claim:
A method of estimating geographic position of an access point of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), the method comprising: sending a plurality of requests for position information of a user equipment (UE) device of a cellular radio network, the UE device being in communication with the access point over the WLAN, the plurality of requests includes a first request for position information at a first time and a second request for position information at a second time; receiving the position information in response to the requests; assigning the position information to an estimate of the geographic position of the access point by averaging the position information of the UE device at the first time and the position information of the UE device at the second time, wherein, the steps of sending the request and receiving the position information are performed at either the access point or at the cellular radio network, wherein the step of receiving comprises receiving the position information from either the cellular radio network or through a WLAN interface from the UE device; and wherein the estimate of the geographic position is stored at the access point.