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US 2011/0215969 A1Published application
Gps-based ce device wireless access point mapping
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsPaul Jin Hwang, Fredrik Carpio, Nikolaos Georgis, Benjamin Lo
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Abstract
A CE device can incorporate a GPS receiver and can be moved around a building with wireless access point (AP) signal strengths recorded at various locations. The optimum AP location is selected on the basis of the location-to-signal strength correlations.
Claims20
Consumer electronics (CE) device comprising:
- housing bearing a processor and a visual display, the processor controlling the display;
- position sensor in the housing and generating geographic position signals;
- wireless receiver in the housing and receiving signals from a wireless access point (AP) configured to communicate with a wide area network and located at a current AP location;
- the processor using the signals from the position sensor and wireless receiver to generate a correlation of wireless access point (AP) communication conditions with respective locations in a building, the processor presenting an indication on the display of a suggested location of the AP that is different from the current AP location.
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Method comprising:
- receiving, in a computing device, location information indicating location of the device;
- receiving, in the computing device, signals from a wireless access point (AP);
- moving the computing device relative to the AP;
- correlating at least first and second locations of the computing device to first and second AP communication indices;
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- based on the correlating act, outputting a suggested location of the AP that is different from a current location of the AP.
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System comprising:
- computing device including a position receiver and a wireless transceiver;
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- wireless access point (AP) communicating with the computing device, the computing device determining communication indicia for respective locations of the computing device relative to the AP and based thereon outputting to a user a suggested best AP location, a suggested most secure AP location, and a suggested AP repeater location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.