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LOCATION DETERMINATION USING GENERALIZED FINGERPRINTING

  • US 20130018826A1
  • Filed: 07/15/2011
  • Published: 01/17/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of location determination for a device, the method comprising:

  • dividing a plurality of crowd-sourced location observations and a plurality of non-RF related factors into a training dataset and a test dataset, each of the crowd-sourced location observations including a set of base stations observed by one of a plurality of computing devices and an observation location of the device;

    assigning the crowd-sourced location observations to one or more geographic areas based on the observation locations associated with each of the crowd-sourced location observations and a location associated with each of the geographic areas;

    determining the device location estimate based on the training data set; and

    comparing the determined device location estimate to the observation location of the device corresponding to the location observation in the test dataset to calculate an accuracy value.

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