Method and apparatus for maintaining a fingerprint for a wireless network
CA 2616774 C · Owner: Nanda, Sanjiv · Inventors: Nanda, Sanjiv; Deshpande, Manoj M.; Gogic, Aleksandar
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The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device that measures characteristics or attributes of a first communications network that vary according to physical location within that first communications network to create a fingerprint, or signature, of a location within the first communications network. When the fingerprint of the current location of the mobile device is created it can be compared to a known fingerprint associated with a second communication network to determine the mobile device's proximity to the second communications network. Furthermore the second and subsequent , fingerprint that are generated for a particular communications network can be used to …
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- Filed July 24, 2006 and granted December 2, 2014. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 24, 2026.
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