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US 9,544,869 B2Granted
Method for adapting to venue positioning capabilities
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsSaumitra Mohan Das, Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Weihua Gao, Ju-Yong Do
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Abstract
Particular embodiments disclosed herein are directed to methods, systems and/or devices for mobile assisted positioning. A mobile station may receive positioning assistance data from a server enabling or supporting one or more positioning operations in a venue. In a particular implementation, the mobile device may alter execution of one or more applications based, at least in part, on an indication of particular positioning services or operations enabled or supported by positioning assistance data available at the server.
Claims24
A method for location determination at a mobile station, the method comprising:
- transmitting one or more request messages to a server serving a venue, said one or more request messages requesting positioning assistance data;
- receiving from said server one or more response messages, said one or more response messages comprising an indication of an indoor positioning capability of said venue related to at least one location based service;
- and
- selecting a positioning application of a plurality of positioning applications hosted on said mobile station corresponding to one of a plurality of levels of performance based, at least in part, on said indication of said capability of said venue, said indication of said indoor positioning capability identifying availability of positioning information or said positioning assistance data.
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A mobile station comprising:
- a transceiver to transmit messages to and receive messages from a communication network;
- and
- one or more processors to:
- initiate transmission of one or more request messages through said transceiver to a server serving a venue, said one or more request messages requesting positioning assistance data;
- obtain one or more response messages received from said server at said transceiver, said one or more response messages comprising an indication of an indoor positioning capability of said venue related to at least one location based service;
- and
- select a positioning application of a plurality of positioning applications hosted on said mobile station corresponding to one of a plurality of levels of performance based, at least in part, on said indication of said indoor positioning capability of said venue, said indication of said indoor positioning capability identifying availability of positioning information or said positioning assistance data.
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An article comprising:
- a non-transitory storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions stored thereon which are executable by one or more processors of a mobile station to:
- initiate transmission of one or more request messages to a server serving a venue, said one or more request messages requesting positioning assistance data;
- obtain one or more response messages received from said server, said one or more response messages comprising an indication of an indoor positioning capability of said venue related to at least one location based service;
- and
- select a positioning application of a plurality of positioning applications hosted on said mobile station corresponding to one of a plurality of levels of performance based, at least in part, on said indication of said indoor positioning capability of said venue, said indication of said indoor positioning capability identifying availability of positioning information or said positioning assistance data.
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A mobile station comprising:
- means for transmitting one or more request messages to a server serving a venue, said one or more request messages requesting positioning assistance data;
- means for receiving from said server one or more response messages, said one or more response messages comprising an indication of an indoor positioning capability of said venue related to at least one location based service;
- and
- means for selecting a positioning application of a plurality of positioning applications hosted on said mobile station corresponding to one of a plurality of levels of performance based, at least in part, on said indication of said indoor positioning capability of said venue, said indication of said indoor positioning capability identifying availability of positioning information or said positioning assistance data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.