System and method for determining geolocation of a wireless access point or wireless device
AssigneeOpen Invention Network, LLC
InventorsRobert W. Peterson, Mark Gerard
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Abstract
In order to determine the location of wireless network devices without inherent location capabilities, a wireless network device such as an access point can receive geolocation information from transient data sources such as mobile devices requiring network access from the access point. The access point stores geolocation records including location coordinates received from the transient data sources. The geolocation records can be processed to determine the position and movement of the access point. The geolocation records and/or location information can be passed to other transient clients that do not have inherent location capability.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- accessing a wireless network access point with a web browser;
- receiving at least one URL comprising a geolocation coordinate from one or more first wireless devices into the wireless network access point;
- using the web browser to store the URL in one or more geolocation records in a location history manager of the web browser;
- providing at least one of the URLs from the location history manager to the one or more first wireless devices;
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- processing the one or more geolocation records by the one or more first wireless devices to determine a geolocation for the access point.
A wireless access point configured to provide wireless network access to one or more wireless devices comprising one or more transient data sources and one or more transient data clients, the wireless access point comprising a web browser, the web browser comprising a location history manager configured to:
- receive a URL from the at least one transient data source that comprises a geolocation coordinate from one or more first wireless devices into the wireless network access point that provides wireless network service to the one or more first wireless devices;
- store the geolocation coordinate in a geolocation record in the location history manager of the web browser;
- retrieve one or more geolocation records in response to a request from the one or more transient data clients;
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- process the retrieved one or more geolocation records to determine a geolocation of the one or more transient data clients.
A method, comprising:
- accessing a wireless access point from a wireless device;
- requesting one or more URLs from the wireless access point, the one or more URLs comprising geolocation information received from at least one mobile device to which the wireless access point provided wireless network service and stored in a URL history manager of a web browser of the wireless access point;
- receiving the one or more URLs from the wireless access point;
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- processing the one or more URLs by the wireless device to calculate a geolocation of the wireless device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.