Patent Document ID: 9351117
Application ID: 13972738
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving information related to a scan for wireless networks performed with a computing device, wherein the information includes a plurality of network attributes for a plurality of wireless networks, wherein the plurality of network attributes include data related to a received power of a radio signal from a wireless base station for respective wireless networks of the plurality of wireless networks and a unique identification for respective wireless networks of the plurality of wireless networks; comparing the plurality of network attributes with a reference set of network attributes to determine an attribute comparison, wherein the reference set of network attributes comprises a reference received power for respective reference wireless networks of a plurality of reference wireless networks and a unique identification for respective reference wireless networks of the plurality of reference wireless networks, wherein comparing the plurality of network attributes comprises determining a difference of an average received power of the received power for each wireless network of the plurality of wireless networks and an average received power of the reference wireless networks; and determining a distance between a location from which a reference scan associated with the reference set of network attributes was performed and a location from which the scan associated with the plurality of network attributes was performed, wherein the determining is based on a correlation between the attribute comparison and a set of previously-captured attribute comparisons, wherein the set of previously-captured attribute comparisons is based on a plurality of previously-captured wireless scans.