Patent Document ID: 8559975
Application ID: 13252605
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of location determination for performance by a device comprising a processor, the method comprising: dividing a plurality of crowd-sourced location observations into a training dataset and a test dataset, each of the crowd-sourced location observations comprising an observation location corresponding to each device from among a plurality of computing devices; assigning the crowd-sourced location observations to at least one geographic area of a plurality of geographic areas based on the observation locations associated with each of the crowd-sourced location observations and a corresponding location associated with each of the geographic areas; determining a plurality of possible received signal strength (RSS)-based weighted functions for each geographic area based on at least one crowd-sourced location observation corresponding to each geographic area; and determining an optimal weighted function from among the plurality of possible RSS-based weighted functions based on the training dataset and the testing dataset.