Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for mapping wireless network coverage
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Application No.: US15855226Application Date: 2017-12-27
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Publication No.: US10264470B2Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- Inventor: Nicholaus Adam Jones , Matthew Allen Jones , Robert James Taylor , Daniel R. Shields , Marc Ashley Fletter
- Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AR Bentonville
- Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
- Current Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AR Bentonville
- Agency: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts LLP
- Main IPC: H04W16/20
- IPC: H04W16/20 ; H04B17/318 ; H04W4/04 ; H04B17/27

Abstract:
Disclosed is a system for collecting data and mapping wireless network coverage in a building such as a retail store. A mobile computing device is used by an employee to collect data captures and wireless coverage indicators in the retail store. The wireless coverage indicator includes data on the status of wireless network coverage in the location where the data capture was collected. The data capture and the wireless coverage indicators are wirelessly transmitted to a utility for mapping a building when a wireless network is available. If no wireless network is available, the data is stored in the mobile computing device until a wireless network is available. The utility for mapping a building uses information in the data capture to determine the location where the data capture was collected, and maps the data in the wireless coverage indicator to the location on a map of the building.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180124614A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAPPING WIRELESS NETWORK COVERAGE Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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