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AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsJared K. McGann, Stephen P. Jackson, Adam M. Driscoll, Alexandru Popovici, Nicholas D. Felton, Todd R. Grooms
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Waypoints can be automatically created by monitoring network wireless signal strength to help a user of a mobile device in a non-urban location to find a previous location with known network connectivity and make emergency calls. In some embodiments, a backtrack route is displayed on the mobile device to the closest previous location with network connectivity. In some embodiments, for privacy considerations, access to waypoint information stored in a secured storage/database is restricted based on the determination of location state, and backtrack routes are displayed in stages.
A method performed by one or more processors of a first mobile device, comprising:
A mobile device, comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a mobile device, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
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