Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Determination of device location in crowded indoor environments
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Application No.: US14657686Application Date: 2015-03-13
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Publication No.: US09686649B2Publication Date: 2017-06-20
- Inventor: Raz Weizman , Noam S. Brousard , Liraz Goldenthal , Idan Gutman
- Applicant: Intel IP Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Law Office of R. Alan Burnett, PS
- Main IPC: H04W24/00
- IPC: H04W24/00 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W4/06 ; H04W4/00

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for determining device location in crowded indoor environments. A mobile device is configured to determine its location using a Wi-Fi Time of Flight (ToF)-based location scheme. Once the device determines it location, it may broadcast its location to nearby devices using a low energy location sharing mechanism that employs low energy broadcast signals identifying the location of the device. The low energy broadcast signals may be used by other devices having a similar configuration, as well as devices that don't use the ToF-based location scheme to determine their locations using RSSI measurements and multi-lateration and/or have such capabilities disabled. The location of a device may be updated by fusing location data derived from the ToF-based location scheme with location data received from nearby devices that are broadcasting their locations using the low energy location sharing mechanism. The sharing mechanism reduces the number of ToF sessions, while also reducing power consumption by using the lower energy broadcasts to share location data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160269860A1 DETERMINATION OF DEVICE LOCATION IN CROWDED INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS Public/Granted day:2016-09-15
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