Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wi-Fi tile transfer
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Application No.: US14221213Application Date: 2014-03-20
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Publication No.: US09686692B2Publication Date: 2017-06-20
- Inventor: Shai Guday , Maher Afif Saba
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licesning, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licesning, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Medley, Behrens & Lewis, LLC
- Main IPC: H04W4/02
- IPC: H04W4/02 ; H04W16/24 ; H04W48/00 ; H04L29/08 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
Various technologies described herein pertain to transferring geospatial tiles for Wi-Fi networks. A geospatial tile specifies a geographic region and includes data pertaining to a plurality of Wi-Fi networks having respective geographic coverage areas within the geographic region. A mobile device can receive an indicator that corresponds to a geospatial tile for retrieval by the mobile device. Further, the mobile device can request the geospatial tile from a tile management system based upon the indicator. Upon receiving the geospatial tile from the tile management system, the mobile device stores the geospatial tile in a tile cache. Further, the mobile device can automatically connect to a particular Wi-Fi network from the plurality of Wi-Fi networks utilizing data for the particular Wi-Fi network included in the geospatial tile when the mobile device is positioned within a geographic coverage area of the particular Wi-Fi network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150271640A1 WI-FI TILE TRANSFER Public/Granted day:2015-09-24
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