Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of enabling a wireless information device to access location data
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Application No.: US13673068Application Date: 2012-11-09
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Publication No.: US09844017B2Publication Date: 2017-12-12
- Inventor: John Pagonis , Mark Jacobs
- Applicant: Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.
- Applicant Address: LU Luxembourg
- Assignee: Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.
- Current Assignee: Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: LU Luxembourg
- Agency: Conversant Wireless Licensing
- Priority: GB02121770 20020527
- Main IPC: H04W24/00
- IPC: H04W24/00 ; H04W64/00 ; G01S5/00 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W4/00 ; G01S5/02

Abstract:
A method of enabling a first wireless information device to access absolute location data in which the first wireless information device does not possess its own absolute location finding system but is instead able to receive, over a wireless network, absolute location data from a second wireless information device that does have its own absolute location finding system. The present invention hence enables wireless information devices to share absolute location data: for example, a mobile telephone with GPS capability can be used as a local “beacon” to broadcast its absolute location to any nearby devices over a personal area wireless network (e.g. a Bluetooth network) so that those nearby devices can use that location data. Hence, a camera with no location finding system of its own could obtain location data from a nearby GPS equipped mobile telephone over a Bluetooth PAN and watermark its images with location data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130070959A1 METHOD OF ENABLING A WIRELESS INFORMATION DEVICE TO ACCESS LOCATION DATA Public/Granted day:2013-03-21
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