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Indoor position location using docked mobile devices

US9398412B2 · kind B2 · utility

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22Claims

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Gaby Prechner · Beer Yaakov, IL
Leor Banin · Netanya, IL
Yuval Amizur · Kfar Sava, IL

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 26, 2013
Grant date	Jul 19, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 13, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S5/14
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Examples are disclosed for a mobile device to determine its location by trilateration with docked mobile devices and, optionally, wireless access points. Locations are determined to within an accuracy of within three feet. The docked mobile devices are at fixed locations such as docked to a docking station. In some examples, a mobile device may perform ranging to the docked mobile devices and fixed wireless stations. Ranging may use a time-of-flight (ToF) process, and may compensate for multipath interference. Trilateration may consider relative accuracies of ranging components. Other examples are described and claimed.

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