US 2011/0237185 A1 · METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION FOR A RF COMMUNICATION DEVICE BASED ON ITS PROXIMITY TO A MOBILE DEVICE

Abstract

A mobile device may be operable to determine, based on a known location of the mobile device, a location for a RF communication device that communicates with the mobile device, whenever the mobile device is within proximate range of the RF communication device. The determined location for the RF communication device may be stored in a location database in a location server and/or a memory in the RF communication device. The stored location of the RF communication device may then be used to determine a location for other mobile devices that may communicate with the RF communication device and are within proximate range of the RF communication device. The RF communication device may comprise a radio-frequency identification (RFID) device and/or a near field communication (NFC) device. The determined location for the RF communication device may comprise the known location of the mobile device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for communication, the method comprising:

performing by one or more processors and/or circuits in a mobile device:
determining a location for a RF communication device based on a known location of said mobile device, wherein said RF communication device communicates with said mobile device within proximate range of said RF communication device;
and
storing said determined location for said RF communication device in a remote storage device, wherein said stored location of said RF communication device is utilized for location-based services (LBS).

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/732,940Filed 26 Mar 2010

Published

29 Sep 2011

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

H04B 5/77
Specially adapted for specific purposes: for interrogation
G01S 5/0295
Using radio waves: proximity-based methods, e.g. position inferred from reception of particular signals
H04W 4/023
Services making use of location information: using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets…
H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…

Method and system for determining a location for a rf communication device based on its proximity to a mobile device

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Method and system for determining a location for a rf communication device based on its proximity to a mobile device

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Abstract

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