Patent ID: 7827276

Claim:
A method, comprising: transmitting, to one or more centralized servers, a request for one or more latency signatures, wherein the one or more latency signatures provides positioning information as a function of time for each client relative to the one or more centralized servers in a network; receiving, from the one or more centralized servers, one or more latency signatures for each requested client based at least in part on the request for the one or more latency signatures; storing, in one or more data storage systems, the one or more latency signatures for future retrieval; comparing the latency signatures in the event there is more than one latency signature; and updating the one or more latency signatures comprising: transmitting, to the one or more centralized servers, an additional request for one or more updated latency signatures corresponding to the each requested client; receiving, from the one or more centralized servers, the one or more updated latency signatures based on the additional request; and storing the one or more updated latency signatures in the one or more data storage systems.