Method and apparatus for a mobile access system delivering location based information and services
First Claim
1. A wireless access network (WAN) for servicing wireless devices, and the WAN comprising:
- wireless access points (WAP) each having locations expressed in a coordinate system; and
each of the WAP configured to establish communications with proximate ones of the wireless devices; and
a server coupled to the WAP and the server configured to maintain access records correlating times of access by each wireless device with associated WAPs providing said access, and the server further configured to deliver to each wireless device, via a proximate WAP, a map including an overlay of a prior path of the wireless device through the WAN and the prior path determined by sorting the access records for each wireless device by a time of access to a corresponding WAP and generating the prior path as a sequence of vectors with coordinates corresponding with the locations of each successive WAP in the sorted access records.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed for providing a range of location dependent information and services to users of wireless devices coupled to the multi-point wireless access network of the current invention.
In an embodiment of the invention a multi-point wireless access network for servicing wireless devices is provided. The multi-point wireless access network includes: wireless access devices, an inventory map and a server. The wireless access points are arrayed in a coordinate system with a known relative relationship to one another. Each of the wireless access points provides communication capabilities for corresponding proximate ones of the wireless devices. The inventory map correlates selected ones of the wireless access points with corresponding inventory located proximate to each of the selected ones of the wireless access points. The server couples to the wireless access points and to the inventory map, and the server correlates each access to the multi-point wireless access network from a corresponding wireless device with the corresponding inventory from the inventory map to provide at least one of location dependant information and location dependant services to the corresponding wireless device.
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8 Claims
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1. A wireless access network (WAN) for servicing wireless devices, and the WAN comprising:
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wireless access points (WAP) each having locations expressed in a coordinate system; and
each of the WAP configured to establish communications with proximate ones of the wireless devices; and
a server coupled to the WAP and the server configured to maintain access records correlating times of access by each wireless device with associated WAPs providing said access, and the server further configured to deliver to each wireless device, via a proximate WAP, a map including an overlay of a prior path of the wireless device through the WAN and the prior path determined by sorting the access records for each wireless device by a time of access to a corresponding WAP and generating the prior path as a sequence of vectors with coordinates corresponding with the locations of each successive WAP in the sorted access records. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method for providing a multi-point wireless access network (WAN) to wireless devices, comprising:
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providing wireless access points (WAP) each having locations identified in a coordinate system;
maintaining access records correlating times of access by each wireless device with associated WAPs providing said access; and
delivering to each wireless device, via a proximate WAP, a map including an overlay of a prior path of the wireless device through the WAN and the prior path determined by sorting the access records for each wireless device by a time of access to a corresponding WAP and generating the prior path as a sequence of vectors with coordinates corresponding with the locations of each successive WAP in the sorted access records. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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