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Location source ranking for determining device location

  • US 10,255,328 B2
  • Filed: 10/09/2013
  • Issued: 04/09/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • at least one processor; and

    one or more computer-readable storage media including instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by the at least one processor, cause the system perform operations including;

    receiving a request for a location of a device;

    identifying available location sources that are available to provide position information for the device;

    selecting a combination of the available location sources based on rankings of the respective available location sources;

    defining a target geographic zone for the device by utilizing an overlapping geographic zone and excluding a non-overlapping geographic zone from the combination of the selected available location sources, including;

    determining a first location of the device utilizing a first location source of the selected available location sources;

    determining a second location of the device utilizing a second, different location source of the selected available location sources; and

    defining the target geographic zone using the overlapping geographic zone and excluding the non-overlapping geographic zone from the first location and the second location; and

    determining the location of the device using the target geographic zone.

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