Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Crowd sourced privacy preserving access point mapping
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Application No.: US17383321Application Date: 2021-07-22
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Publication No.: US11641596B2Publication Date: 2023-05-02
- Inventor: Rachid Kachemir , Krishna M. Behara , Ashok Kumar Harikumar , Christopher R. Purcell , Welly Kasten
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Invoke
- Main IPC: H04W24/10
- IPC: H04W24/10 ; H04W48/16 ; H04W64/00 ; H04W76/10 ; H04W12/02

Abstract:
In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210352512A1 Crowd Sourced Privacy Preserving Access Point Mapping Public/Granted day:2021-11-11
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