User interface and data structure for transceiver fingerprints of network locations
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorGabriel Montenegro
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Abstract
A fingerprint table or other type of data structure including a plurality of entries may be provided, each entry including a transmitter fingerprint set of a respective network location. Determining whether a current network location is a network location known to a user device may include comparing a determined transmitter fingerprint set of the entity with the transmitter fingerprint set of one or more fingerprint table entries. A user interface may be provided that enables a user to control when a transmitter fingerprint set is determined, compared with fingerprint table entries and/or recorded.
Claims20
A computer program product comprising:
- at least one computer-readable medium;
- and
- computer-readable signals stored on the computer-readable medium defining instructions that, as a result of being executed by a user device, instruct the user device to perform a method of assisting a user of a user device in recording a transmitter fingerprint set of a network location, the method comprising:
- (a) providing a user interface to enable the user to initiate recording the transmitter fingerprint set of the network location.
A system for assisting a user of a user device in recording a transmitter fingerprint of a wireless access point, the system comprising:
- a user interface to enable the user to initiate recording the transmitter fingerprint of the wireless access point.
A computer-readable medium having computer-readable signals stored thereon that define a data structure comprising at least one entry specifying a transmitter fingerprint set of a network location,
- wherein the data structure is operative to be accessed by a user device to determine an identity of a network location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.