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US 7,613,428 B2Granted
Resource location through location history
AssigneePalm, Inc.
InventorsDavid C. Blight, Elaine Lusher
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for locating resources available to portable electronic devices which are enabled for short range wireless communications. The system and method include creating and accessing a resource and access location history database accessible via the portable electronic device.
Claims22
A computing device, comprising:
- a radio frequency transceiver configured to detect a plurality of nearby wireless local area network access points;
- a location determination circuit;
- and
- a processing circuit configured to receive an address via the radio frequency transceiver from each of the detected plurality of nearby access points, to provide a location of each of the access points based on signals from the location determination circuit, and to store the addresses and associated locations in a database.
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A method, comprising:
- detecting wireless local area network access points using a radio frequency transceiver;
- receiving address data from each of the detected access point via the radio frequency transceiver;
- calculating location data for the access points using a location determination circuit;
- and
- storing the location data and associated address data in a database.
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A mobile computing device configured to query a database generated by:
- detecting wireless local area network access points using a radio frequency transceiver;
- receiving address data from each of the detected access point via the radio frequency transceiver
- calculating location data for the access points using a location determination circuit;
- and
- storing the location data and associated address data in a database.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.