Infrastructure for location discovery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9759800-B2
Application number	US-201514805870-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 22, 2015
Priority date	Mar 31, 2009
Publication date	Sep 12, 2017
Grant date	Sep 12, 2017

Abstract

Techniques are generally described for determining locations of a plurality of communication devices in a network. In some examples, methods for creating a location discovery infrastructure (LDI) for estimating locations of one or more of a plurality of communication nodes may comprise one or more of determining a plurality of locations in the terrain to place a corresponding plurality of beacon nodes, determining a plurality of beacon node groups for the placed beacon nodes, and determining a schedule for the placed beacon nodes to be active. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
detecting, by a communication node, a signal from a beacon node;
determining, by the communication node, a signal strength of the detected signal;
determining, by the communication node, a proximity of the communication node to the beacon node based at least in part on the signal strength of the detected signal; and
determining, by the communication node, an accuracy of the proximity determination based at least in part on th…

Assignees

• Empire Technology Dev Llc

Inventors

• Potkonjak Miodrag

Classifications

• H04W72/542

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W64/003

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G01S1/022

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01S1/024

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W84/20

  Electricity · mapped topic