Distributed system architecture to provide wireless transmitter positioning

An apparatus comprising:

• an external interface capable of communicating with mobile devices to receive location data about a wireless transmitter, the location data obtained from at least one of crowdsourcing and wardriving;
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• a processor configured to determine a location for the wireless transmitter using the location data, and to cause the external interface to transmit the location for the wireless transmitter to the wireless transmitter.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including program code stored thereon, comprising:

• program code to determine a location for a wireless transmitter using location data received about the wireless transmitter, the location data obtained from at least one of crowdsourcing and wardriving;
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• program code to provide the location for the wireless transmitter to the wireless transmitter.

A method of controlling a wireless transmitter, the method comprising:

• receiving with the wireless transmitter a location of the wireless transmitter from a remote server, the location determined using at least one of crowdsourcing and wardriving;
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• broadcasting an identity of the wireless transmitter with the location.

A wireless transmitter comprising:

• an interface that receives a location of the wireless transmitter from a remote server, the location determined using at least one of crowdsourcing and wardriving;
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• a processor configured to cause the interface to broadcast an identity of the wireless transmitter with the location.

A wireless transmitter comprising:

• means for receiving a location of the wireless transmitter from a remote server, the location determined using at least one of crowdsourcing and wardriving;
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• means for broadcasting an identity of the wireless transmitter with the location.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including program code stored thereon, comprising:

• program code to receive a location of a wireless transmitter from a remote server, the location obtained using at least one of crowdsourcing and wardriving;
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• program code to broadcast an identity of the wireless transmitter with the location.

A mobile device comprising:

• a wireless interface capable of receiving control frames from a plurality of wireless transmitters, each control frame comprising an identity of a wireless transmitter and a location of the wireless transmitter, wherein the wireless transmitter is selected from a group consisting of an access point, a femtocell, Bluetooth Transmitter, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and near-field communication (NFC) station;
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• a processor configured to perform a position calculation for the mobile device using the location of each of the plurality of wireless transmitters, and report a position for a location based service application when the position calculation is successful.