Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-19
2008-12-16
Appiah, Charles N (Department: 2617)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
C455S456100, C701S207000, C702S188000, C709S228000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07466986
ABSTRACT:
A WIFI-enabled and GPS-enabled user device executes a hotspot location utility, which enables the device to detect WIFI hotspots and update a locally-stored hotspot location database (LHLD) containing geographically-mapped hotspots. When a hotspot is detected, the device accesses the hotspot, retrieves identification information and usage terms from the hotspot, and measures performance metrics of the hotspot. The utility stores the identified hotspot with the current GPS coordinate as an entry within the LHLD. When a user later desires to locate hotspots within a particular geographic location, the user enters the physical address of the location, and hotspots with matching (or proximate) GPS coordinates of the entered address are presented to the user. The user may specify certain preferences for usage terms, performance metrics, and location criteria, and the utility filters all geographic hits and returns only hotspots in the geographic location that also satisfy these preferences.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5781536 (1998-07-01), Ahmadi et al.
patent: 5870385 (1999-02-01), Ahmadi et al.
patent: 6597671 (2003-07-01), Ahamdi et al.
patent: 6813501 (2004-11-01), Kinnunen et al.
patent: 6823284 (2004-11-01), Gfeller et al.
patent: 2002/0055817 (2002-05-01), Chou
patent: 2002/0077787 (2002-06-01), Rappaport et al.
patent: 2003/0212800 (2003-11-01), Jones et al.
patent: 2004/0072581 (2004-04-01), Kabushiki et al.
patent: 2004/0106379 (2004-06-01), Zen
patent: 2006/0121914 (2006-06-01), Kim et al.
patent: 1398914 (2004-03-01), None
patent: 2004052041 (2004-06-01), None
IBM Corporation, PCT/EP2007/050498, International Search Report and Written Opinion, Jun. 14, 2007, 12 pgs.
Halcrow Michael Austin
Kirkland Dustin
Appiah Charles N
Dillon & Yudell LLP
International Business Machines - Corporation
Vu Michael T
LandOfFree
On-device mapping of WIFI hotspots via direct connection of... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with On-device mapping of WIFI hotspots via direct connection of..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and On-device mapping of WIFI hotspots via direct connection of... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4036354