321 |
SYSTEM AND METHOD TO COLLECT DEVICE LOCATION CONTEXT WITHOUT THE COLLECTION OF RAW, DETAILED LOCATION DATA AT SCALE |
US15825809 |
2017-11-29 |
US20180152836A1 |
2018-05-31 |
Steven Milton; Drew Breunig |
Provided is a distributed application that shifts certain server-side operations from geolocation analytics platforms to client computing devices to enhance consumer privacy and the collection and use of potentially sensitive, personal data about an individual and their mobile device. |
322 |
Track fusion using SIGINT or estimated speed |
US14180453 |
2014-02-14 |
US09977969B1 |
2018-05-22 |
Robert J. Cole; Geoffrey M. Guisewite; Michael R. Gabrovsek |
Generally discussed herein are systems and apparatuses that are configured to and techniques for matching track fragments. According to an example, a technique can include receiving data indicating a first and second actual ToA of first and second SIGINT signals at a collector, estimating first and second sets of estimated ToAs of the first and second SIGINT signals at a collector, respectively, each of the first and second sets of estimated ToAs based on a different track fragment of a first plurality of track fragments active at the first time and a different track fragment of a second plurality of track fragments active at the second time, respectively, or matching a track fragment of the first plurality of track fragments with a track fragment of the second plurality of track fragments based on the first and second sets of estimated ToAs and the first and second actual ToAs. |
323 |
TRACK FUSION USING SIGINT OR ESTIMATED SPEED |
US14180453 |
2014-02-14 |
US20180121735A1 |
2018-05-03 |
Robert J. Cole; Geoffrey M. Guisewite; Michael R. Gabrovsek |
Generally discussed herein are systems and apparatuses that are configured to and techniques for matching track fragments. According to an example, a technique can include receiving data indicating a first and second actual ToA of first and second SIGINT signals at a collector, estimating first and second sets of estimated ToAs of the first and second SIGINT signals at a collector, respectively, each of the first and second sets of estimated ToAs based on a different track fragment of a first plurality of track fragments active at the first time and a different track fragment of a second plurality of track fragments active at the second time, respectively, or matching a track fragment of the first plurality of track fragments with a track fragment of the second plurality of track fragments based on the first and second sets of estimated ToAs and the first and second actual ToAs. |
324 |
Indoor positioning systems and meeting room occupancy |
US14803530 |
2015-07-20 |
US09955316B2 |
2018-04-24 |
Krishnam Raju Jampani; Daryl Joseph Martin; I-Ming Tsai; Jason Christopher Beckett |
A method of determining room occupancy of a room in a facility having an indoor positioning system with wireless access point fingerprints each correlated to a location in the facility. The method may include receiving a request from a computing device for a room occupancy assessment associated with the room. It may further include obtaining location data that correlates to the location of one or more people from the indoor positioning system and determining from the location data associated with the room whether the room is occupied. The determination of whether the room is occupied is then sent to the computing device. |
325 |
METHOD AND VEHICLE TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM |
US15283414 |
2016-10-02 |
US20180096598A1 |
2018-04-05 |
Mark Lawrence Turner |
A vehicle and method of operating a vehicle in a vehicle traffic control system includes receiving a grid projection from a grid generator, generating a navigation output, transmitting the navigation output to the vehicle traffic control system, receiving the vehicle traffic control plan from the vehicle traffic control system, and operating the vehicle. |
326 |
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDOOR LOCALIZATION USING BEACONS |
US15558047 |
2016-03-18 |
US20180067187A1 |
2018-03-08 |
Hyun Oh Oh; JuHyung SON; Jin Sam Kwak; Geonjung Ko |
Systems and methods are described for determining positions of indoor localization beacons without requiring a physical site survey. In a coarse positioning method, a mobile node receives beacon signals that identify rooms (such as stores in a shopping mall) in which the beacons are located. The mobile node obtains floor plan information relating to the building and estimates beacon locations based on the floor plan and beacon signal strength. The estimated beacon locations may be arranged in a predetermined geometric pattern based on the number of beacons in a room. In a fine positioning method, a mobile node recognizes its proximity to a beacon and responsively measures the distance to other beacons. Estimated beacon positions may be used to estimate the location of the mobile node using trilateration or other techniques. |
327 |
Tracking and monitoring apparatus and system |
US14070784 |
2013-11-04 |
US09898915B2 |
2018-02-20 |
Raymond Douglas |
A programmable mobile unit for a portable host, such as a person, comprising a microcontroller in communication with each of a detachable freespace communication module for communication with a control center, a GPS unit for communication with at least a GPS satellite system and a biometric sensor for monitoring and identifying the host. |
328 |
LOCATION BASED VOICE ASSOCIATION SYSTEM |
US15236120 |
2016-08-12 |
US20180047394A1 |
2018-02-15 |
Cheng Tian; Srivathsan Narasimhan |
Systems and methods for associating audio signals in an environment surrounding a voice-controlled system include receiving by a voice-controlled system through a microphone, an audio signal from a user of a plurality of users within an environment surrounding the microphone. The voice-controlled system determines a source location of the audio signal. The voice-controlled system determines a first user location of a first user and a second user location of a second user. The voice-controlled system then determines that the first user location correlates with the source location such that the source location and the first user location are within a predetermined distance of each other. In response, the voice-controlled system performs at least one security action associated with the first user providing the audio signal. |
329 |
USE OF RF-BASED FINGERPRINTING FOR INDOOR POSITIONING BY MOBILE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS |
US15719552 |
2017-09-29 |
US20180035263A1 |
2018-02-01 |
Joshua Titus; Kevin Garth Lee |
A method is provided for determining the position of a mobile technology platform within a structure, wherein the mobile technology platform is equipped with a gyroscope, a magnetometer and at least one accelerometer. The method includes deploying a set of RF (radio frequency) beacons within the structure, wherein each RF beacon emits an RF signal; recording, at each of a set of sampling locations within the structure, the RF signature created by the RF signals received at the location, wherein said recording is performed by a digital image correlation (DIC) platform which traverses the structure, and which correlates the recorded RF signatures to a floor map of the structure; forming an RF fingerprint of the structure from the recorded RF signatures; and using the RF fingerprint, in conjunction with readings from the gyroscope, magnetometer and at least one accelerometer to determine the location of the device within the structure. |
330 |
LOCATION TRACKING USING BEACONS |
US15655406 |
2017-07-20 |
US20180025603A1 |
2018-01-25 |
Daniel Paul Tyler; Balakrishna Subramaniam |
Systems and methods for tracking the location of an asset may utilize wireless asset beacons broadcasting asset information/data and powered asset beacons secured relative to movable powered assets. The powered asset beacons may be configured to receive signals transmitted from the asset beacons and to ascertain a relative location between the asset beacon and the powered asset to determine an estimated location of the asset. Moreover, the asset beacons may be selectively activated based on the occurrence of a trigger event, such that the asset beacons do not wireless transmit information/data when it is desirable to limit wireless data transmissions. |
331 |
SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR LOCATING A MOBILE DEVICE |
US15520145 |
2016-05-05 |
US20180014271A1 |
2018-01-11 |
Graham R Worsfold; Geoffrey Girdler |
A system for locating a mobile device emitting a radio frequency signal. A wireless access point device of a wireless local area network is configured to communicatively connect to a wide area network. The system comprises a first access device for wirelessly communicatively detecting a first signal strength of the radio frequency signal in relation to the first access device, a media access control (MAC) address, and a first timestamp of the first signal strength, of the mobile device; a second access device for wirelessly communicatively detecting a second signal strength of the radio frequency signal in relation to the second access device, the MAC address, and a second timestamp of the second signal strength, of the mobile device; a third access device for wirelessly communicatively detecting a third signal strength of the radio frequency signal in relation to the third access device, the MAC address, and a third timestamp of the third signal strength, of the mobile device. |
332 |
Locationing via staged antenna utilization |
US15131638 |
2016-04-18 |
US09866994B2 |
2018-01-09 |
Yasantha Rajakarunanayake; Vinko Erceg |
A communication network of the present disclosure can determine a location of a communication device, such as a mobile communication device, a wireless access point, and/or a base station to provide some examples, within its geographic coverage area based upon one or more communication signals that are communicated within the communication network and/or between the communication network and another communication network. The communication network can implement a multilateration technique to determine the location of the communication device based upon the one or more communication signals as received over various signal pathways. In an embodiment, the communication device can include multiple receiving antennas for receiving the one or more communication signals over multiple first signal pathways. The multilateration technique can use the one or more communication signals as received over the multiple first signal pathways to estimate a coarse location of the mobile communication device. Thereafter, the multilateration technique can, optionally, be used to effectively refine the coarse location based upon the one or more communication signals as received over multiple second signal pathways within the communication network to estimate a fine location of the mobile communication device. |
333 |
Reliability in mobile device positioning in a crowdsourcing system |
US15074481 |
2016-03-18 |
US09843890B2 |
2017-12-12 |
Ju-yong Do; Meghna Agrawal; Gengsheng Zhang |
Methods and systems are disclosed for improving reliability in mobile device positioning. A mobile device generates position data for a device, receives a first access point position reliability state associated with the first access point, determines a reliability of the position data based on the first access point position reliability state and an estimated location of the first access point, determines a threshold reliability requirement of an application associated with the mobile device, compares the reliability of the position data to the threshold reliability requirement of the application, and provides the position data of the device based on the comparison. A network entity determines access point characteristics associated with an access point, generates a position reliability state for the access point, sends the position reliability state to a mobile device, receives position data associated with the mobile device, and determines a trustworthiness of the position data. |
334 |
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRECISE RADIO FREQUENCY LOCALIZATION IN THE PRESENCE OF MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION PATHS |
US15173531 |
2016-06-03 |
US20170353940A1 |
2017-12-07 |
Manu Seth; Lingkai Kong; Tommi Ylamurto; Vivek Subramanian |
Systems and methods for determining locations of wireless nodes in a network architecture are disclosed herein. In one example, an asynchronous system includes a first wireless node having a wireless device with one or more processing units and RF circuitry for transmitting and receiving communications in the wireless network architecture including a first RF signal having a first packet. The system also includes a second wireless node having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the first wireless node in the wireless network architecture including a second RF signal with a second packet. The first wireless node determines a time of flight estimate for localization based on a time estimate of round trip time of the first and second packets and a time estimate that is based on channel sense information of the first and second wireless nodes. |
335 |
SECURING INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) RF (RADIO FREQUENCY) LOCATION TAGS USING SOURCE ADDRESSES TO LOCATE STATIONS ON A WI-FI NETWORK |
US15620779 |
2017-06-12 |
US20170344767A1 |
2017-11-30 |
Saurabh BHARGAVA; Anil KAUSHIK; Ajay MALIK |
RF tags using source addresses to locate stations on a Wi-Fi network are secured. An RF location server receives a pseudo source address of an RF (radio frequency) tag from a station. The station obtains the pseudo source address while being within radio range of the RF tag and the station receiving a beacon frame from the RF tag. A source address for the RF tag is looked-up utilizing the pseudo source address, and a specific location for the RF tag is looked-up utilizing the source address. Some embodiments store the locations in association with the pseudo address. Either way, the specific location of the station is identified based on the source address of the RF tag. An action is determined in response to at least the specific location of the station. Information related to the action is sent to the station for output to a user of the station. For example, a location-based offer or service can be provided in real-time with a consumer's presence to relevant products or services |
336 |
Navigation system with location mechanism and method of operation thereof |
US14329078 |
2014-07-11 |
US09826496B2 |
2017-11-21 |
John Hinnegan |
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: identifying a location message including an internet address and a message portion; and generating with a control unit a geographic profile associated with the internet address based on the message portion for locating a device based on the internet address. |
337 |
Position location aided by chemical characteristic |
US13645278 |
2012-10-04 |
US09823332B2 |
2017-11-21 |
Mary A. Fales |
A mobile device includes a chemical sensor to detect chemicals in the environment in which the mobile device is present. The detected chemicals are analyzed and used to generate a chemical characteristic of the environment. The chemical characteristic of the environment is used to determine location related data for the mobile device. For example, an implemented within or remote chemical characteristic database that stores chemical characteristics associated with location related data may be searched based on the chemical characteristic of the environment to determine the location of the mobile device. The location related data may be a location of the mobile device or assistance data that may be used to assist in generating a more accurate position fix, e.g., using a satellite positioning system. The location related data may simply whether the mobile device is inside or outside or the floor of a multi-floor building. |
338 |
Method and system for localizing spatially separated wireless transmitters |
US15464035 |
2017-03-20 |
US09820157B1 |
2017-11-14 |
Surendran Rajendran; Ramachandra Budihal; Venkata Prabhakar Tamma |
A technique is provided for localizing a plurality of wireless transmitters. The technique includes retrieving Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) values measured by one or more sensors, corresponding to the plurality of wireless transmitters distributed in a region in which the sensors are located. The technique further comprises generating, a plurality of clusters based on the retrieved RSSI values. The technique further comprises generating a binary image based on the generated clusters. The binary image comprises one or more white regions and one or more black regions. The technique further comprises localizing position of each of the plurality of wireless transmitters, based on a determination of contours of the one or more white regions present in the binary image. |
339 |
AUTONOMOUS MOWER NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD |
US15588025 |
2017-05-05 |
US20170322562A1 |
2017-11-09 |
Christopher J. Churavy; Edward J. Blanchard |
A method for autonomous mower navigation includes receiving a return-to-zero encoded signal including a pseudo-random sequence, transforming the received signal to a non-return-to-zero representation, digitally sampling the non-return-to-zero signal representation in a time domain, filtering the sampled signal utilizing a reference data array based on the return-to-zero encoded signal to produce a filter output, and determining a location of the autonomous mower relative to a defined work area based on an evaluation of the filter output. |
340 |
PRACH-based proximity detection |
US14165351 |
2014-01-27 |
US09814073B2 |
2017-11-07 |
Alan Barbieri; Hao Xu; Vikas Jain; Durga Prasad Malladi; Awaiz Ahmad Khan; Samatha Kotla; Balwinderpal Sachdev |
Improvements to signaling procedures for use in physical random access channel (PRACH)-based proximity detection are disclosed. Signaling and signaling processes from a serving base station may trigger a more efficient and reliable transmission of PRACH from related user equipment (UE). At the dynamic power nodes (DPNs) monitoring for such PRACH-based proximity, features are disclosed which establish neighbor lists for more efficient management of detection and proximity activation. |