Differentiated station location

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9223003-B2
Application number	US-201313903203-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 28, 2013
Priority date	Dec 18, 2012
Publication date	Dec 29, 2015
Grant date	Dec 29, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments allow a station to determine its location and report the location to a access point or other network entity. The station obtains agreement with an access point, group of access points, or other network entity to provide its location to a designated accuracy level and the access point(s) agree to provide services such as access to a location service, the access point(s) location to a designated positional accuracy, etc. The station measures its position and induces an error in its reported location. The induced error prevents an exact location of the station from being determined by the access point(s) or others, thus preserving the privacy of the station. The location reported by the station may be absolute (e.g., geographic coordinates) or relative to a landmark, location, etc.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless device comprising: transceiver circuitry to transmit and receive messages as part of at least one protocol; memory; a processor coupled to the memory and transceiver circuitry; and instructions, stored in the memory, which when executed cause the processor to: initiate an agreement protocol with an access point to identify a positional accuracy; initiate a measurement protocol to identify an actual device location; deriving a reported device locati…

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Segev Jonathan

Classifications

• G01S5/0027 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W12/02

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W48/16

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W64/00

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G01S5/0045 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic