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US 2014/0005930 A1Published application
Locating mobile devices
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsDavid Chiyuan Chu, Lin Zhong
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Abstract
The claimed subject matter provides a method for displaying a map comprising a location estimate on a mobile device. The method includes displaying an interface specifying a correction to the location estimate. The method also includes determining a revised location based on the correction. Additionally, the method includes displaying the map comprising the correction.
Claims20
A method for improving a localization service, comprising:
- displaying a map comprising a location estimate on a mobile device;
- displaying an interface specifying a correction to the location estimate;
- determining a revised location based on the correction;
- and
- displaying a map comprising the revised location.
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A system for improving a localization service, comprising:
- a processing unit;
- and
- a system memory, wherein the system memory comprises code configured to direct the processing unit to:
- provide a list of landmarks to describe a correction to a location estimate from the localization service;
- determine a revised location based on the correction, wherein the correction describes a current location of a mobile device in relation to a selected one of the list of landmarks;
- map the revised location to the location estimate;
- and
- automatically determine the revised location in response to a request to the localization service associated with the original location estimate.
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One or more computer-readable storage media, comprising code configured to direct a processing unit to:
- present an interface to specify a transitory landmark to include on a map display from a mobile device disposed proximate to the transitory landmark;
- determine a current time that the transitory landmark is available;
- and
- present the map display comprising the transitory landmark based on an input to the interface, a current time that a second mobile device is proximate to the transitory landmark, and a current position of the second mobile device, the interface specifying a relative location of the mobile device in relation to the transitory landmark, the relative location comprising a selected one of a list of landmarks displayed in the interface, and the list of landmarks being provided by a map service.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.