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US 2015/0087328 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for improving positioning accuracy of a mobile device with a lower positioning capability
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsHui Chao, Kirk Allan Burroughs, Vinay Sridhara, Saumitra Mohan Das
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Abstract
Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for improving positioning accuracy of a mobile device with a lower positioning capability, such as, for example, via one or more proximate mobile devices with a higher positioning capability.
Claims48
A method comprising:
- detecting, at a first mobile device, a presence of a second mobile device in close proximity to said first mobile device, said second mobile device having a higher positioning capability relative to said first mobile device;
- communicating an indication of said detected presence of said second mobile device to a server via a wireless communications network;
- receiving an estimate of a location of said second mobile device from said server based, at least in part, on said indication;
- and
- computing an estimated location of said first mobile device based, at least in part, on said estimate of said location of said second mobile device.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a communication interface;
- and
- at least one processor programmed with instructions to:
- detect, at a first mobile device, a presence of a second mobile device in close proximity to said first mobile device, said second mobile device having a higher positioning capability relative to said first mobile device;
- communicate an indication of said detected presence of said second mobile device to a server via a wireless communications network;
- receive an estimate of a location of said second mobile device from said server based, at least in part, on said indication;
- and
- compute an estimated location of said first mobile device based, at least in part, on said estimate of said location of said second mobile device.
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An apparatus comprising:
- means for detecting, at a first mobile device, a presence of a second mobile device in close proximity to said first mobile device, said second mobile device having a higher positioning capability relative to said first mobile device;
- means for communicating an indication of said detected presence of said second mobile device to a server via a wireless communications network;
- means for receiving an estimate of a location of said second mobile device from said server based, at least in part, on said indication;
- and
- means for computing an estimated location of said first mobile device based, at least in part, on said estimate of said location of said second mobile device.
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An article comprising:
- a non-transitory storage medium having instructions stored thereon executable by a computing platform to:
- detect, at a first mobile device, a presence of a second mobile device in close proximity to said first mobile device, said second mobile device having a higher positioning capability relative to said first mobile device;
- communicate an indication of said detected presence of said second mobile device to a server via a wireless communications network;
- receive an estimate of a location of said second mobile device from said server based, at least in part, on said indication;
- and
- compute an estimated location of said first mobile device based, at least in part, on said estimate of said location of said second mobile device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.