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Location assisted service capability monitoring

  • US 9,596,670 B2
  • Filed: 01/16/2013
  • Issued: 03/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of obtaining relevant wireless network communication signal quality map data, the method comprising:

  • detecting, at a mobile device, that the mobile device is traveling along a particular path;

    in response to detecting that the mobile device is traveling along the particular path, determining one or more regions, of a plurality of regions of a map, that are intersected by the particular path;

    wirelessly downloading to the mobile device, from a server, a set of one or more map tiles that correspond to the one or more regions that are intersected by the particular path;

    wherein the set of one or more map tiles;

    excludes map tiles that do not correspond to the one or more regions that are intersected by the particular path; and

    are based at least in part on measurements that the server received from two or more mobile devices of a plurality of mobile devices, the measurements indicating qualities of network communication signals within the one or more regions that are intersected by the particular path; and

    based on at least in part on the measurements, sending one or more notifications to one or more applications.

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