Patent ID: 8903414

Claim:
A method performed by one or more computers, comprising: receiving a plurality of sets of location coordinates from one or more mobile devices, each set of location coordinates being associated with a wireless access gateway; mapping the sets of location coordinates to a plurality of geographic regions; selecting one or more geographic regions from the plurality of geographic regions, wherein selecting the one or more geographic regions comprises: determining, for each geographic region and using a probability density function, an expected value based on a relative probability that a received set of location coordinates is located within the geographic region, the probability density function including a sufficient statistic of the received set of location coordinates for calculating an effective location of the wireless access gateway; and selecting the one or more geographic regions upon determining that a measurement of the expected value corresponding to the one or more geographic regions satisfies an outlier threshold; and determining the effective location of the wireless access gateway using sets of location coordinates in the selected one or more geographic regions.