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Skyhook Wireless Awarded Four New Wi-Fi Location Patents
http://www.gpsworld.com/wireless/news/skyhook-wireless-awarded-four-new-wi-fi-location-patents-10310?print=1
August 3, 2010
Skyhook Wireless today announced that the U.S. Patent Office allowed
four new Wi-Fi patent applications, intellectual property in the
emerging area of mobile location services, the company said. The patent
applications are:
U.S. Patent No. 7,768,963: System and method of improving sample of WLAN
packet information to improve Doppler frequency of a WLAN positioning
device.
App#:11/950,178: Location-based services that choose location algorithms
based on number of detected access points within range of a user device.
App#:11/950,242: Location-based services that choose location algorithms
based on number of detected access points within range of a user device.
App#:11/430,079: Estimation of speed and direction of travel in a WLAN
positioning system.
These inventions are the result of years of research into optimizing
Wi-Fi location for mobile devices and further establish Skyhook as the
leader in this area, Skyhook said. These new awards join 11 other
Skyhook patents covering the building blocks for Wi-Fi positioning on
mobile devices (http://skyhookwireless.com/ howitworks/patents.php).
Skyhook Wireless' location system is now deployed on tens of millions of
devices around the world and powers thousands of mobile applications,
the company said.
“As the inventors of this technology, we continue to expand our
portfolio of intellectual property covering the core techniques of
building and managing a Wi-Fi location database along with the advanced
positioning techniques required to provide a reliable location
platform,” said Skyhook’s Founder and CEO Ted Morgan. “These new patent
awards will further protect the assets we have developed and provide
security to all our customers.”
