Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Harvesting labels for significant locations and updating a location fingerprint database using harvested labels
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Application No.: US16120113Application Date: 2018-08-31
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Publication No.: US10356559B2Publication Date: 2019-07-16
- Inventor: Michael P. Dal Santo , Stephen J. Rhee , Ronald K. Huang , Nicholas M. Holt
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: H04W24/00
- IPC: H04W24/00 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W64/00 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
This disclosure describes embodiments for harvesting and serving labels for locations. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by one or more server computers, location data including wireless access point data and location labels associated with significant locations, the location data being harvested from a plurality of devices operating at a plurality of geographic locations; and updating, by the one or more server computers, a plurality of fingerprints representing the plurality of geographic locations, the updating including associating at least one of the received location labels with at least one of the plurality of fingerprints.
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