Techniques to manage client location detection

• US 10,123,299 B2
• Filed: 05/01/2017
• Issued: 11/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Vaccari, Andrea, Jia, Yuntao, Moreels, Pierre, Mallozzi, Matthew Robert, Grise, Gabriel, Ismailov, Islam
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Timothy
• Application Number:
  US15/583,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20170332343A1
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 4554562
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/006 using known positions of transmitter and receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination

Abstract

Techniques to manage client location detection are described. In one embodiment an apparatus may comprise a location-based services support component and a client management component. The location-based services support component may be operative to determine that a network service is scheduled for a location update from a mobile device, determine a location accuracy based on the network service, and update the network service with a received location of the mobile device. The client management component may be operative to transmit a location request to the mobile device, the location request specifying the location accuracy determined based on the network service and receive a response to the location request from the mobile device, the response comprising the location of the mobile device conforming to the specified location accuracy. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

execute a client application responsible for coordinating an update of a location of a client device with a location-based services system;

identify an application location request originating at the client device, the application location request comprising a request to receive the location of the client device;

identify an application network request originating at the client device, the application network request being distinct from the application location request and comprising a request for data from a network;

activate a radio device to perform the application network request;

determining, by the client application, a timing during which the radio device is active to perform the application network request; and

performing the application location request by the client device on the timing determined by the client application during which the radio device is active to perform the application network request without performing a separate radio device activation on behalf of the client application.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the application location request and the application network request originate with different applications.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the request to perform the network activity is a request to transmit data for an application across a network.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the client application maintains a list of known applications that wake up on a repeating schedule to perform network activity, and the client application piggybacks the application location request onto the network activity performed in an iteration of the repeating schedule.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the client device is a first client device, and further comprising coordinating a second update of a location of a second client device with a second client application running on the second client device, the coordinating comprising reporting the location of the first client device as a proxy for the location of the second client device.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 5, wherein the first client device and the second client device communicate using a peer-to-peer connection and the first client device and second client device share a workload of reporting their respective locations.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 5, wherein the location of the second client device is flagged with the location-based services system as being less accurate than the location of the first client device.

8. A computer-implemented method comprising:

executing a client application responsible for coordinating an update of a location of a client device with a location-based services system;

identifying an application location request originating at the client device, the application location request comprising a request to receive the location of the client device;

identifying an application network request originating at the client device, the application network request being distinct from the application location request and comprising a request for data from a network;

activating a radio device to perform the application network request;

determining, by the client application, a timing during which the radio device is active to perform the application network request; and

performing the application location request by the client device on the timing determined by the client application during which the radio device is active to perform the application network request without performing a separate radio device activation on behalf of the client application.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the application location request and the application network request originate with different applications.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the request to perform the network activity is a request to transmit data for an application across a network.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the client application maintains a list of known applications that wake up on a repeating schedule to perform network activity, and the client application piggybacks the application location request onto the network activity performed in an iteration of the repeating schedule.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the client device is a first client device, and further comprising coordinating a second update of a location of a second client device with a second client application running on the second client device, the coordinating comprising reporting the location of the first client device as a proxy for the location of the second client device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first client device and the second client device communicate using a peer-to-peer connection and the first client device and second client device share a workload of reporting their respective locations.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the location of the second client device is flagged with the location-based services system as being less accurate than the location of the first client device.

15. An apparatus comprising:

a processor circuit;

a client application executable on the processor circuit, the client application responsible for coordinating an update of a location of a client device with a location-based services system, the client application configured to;

identify an application location request originating at the client device, the application location request comprising a request to receive the location of the client device, and to identify an application network request originating at the client device, the application network request being distinct from the application location request and comprising a request for data from a network; and

a radio device configured to be activated to perform the application network request, wherein the client application is configured to determine a timing during which the radio device is active to perform the application network request, and the processor circuit is configured to perform the application location request by the client device on the timing determined by the client application during which the radio device is active to perform the application network request performing a separate radio device activation on behalf of the client application.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the application location request and the application network request originate with different applications.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the client application maintains a list of known applications that wake up on a repeating schedule to perform network activity, and the client application piggybacks the application location request onto the network activity performed in an iteration of the repeating schedule.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the client device is a first client device, and further comprising coordinating a second update of a location of a second client device with a second client application running on the second client device, the coordinating comprising reporting the location of the first client device as a proxy for the location of the second client device.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the first client device and the second client device communicate using a peer-to-peer connection and the first client device and second client device share a workload of reporting their respective locations.

20. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the location of the second client device is flagged with the location-based services system as being less accurate than the location of the first client device.