METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS NETWORK HYBRID POSITIONING

摘要

Methods and apparatuses for position determination and other operations. In one embodiment of the present invention, a mobile station uses wireless signals from a plurality of wireless networks (e.g., with different air interfaces and/or operated by different service providers) for position determination (e.g., for data communication, for obtaining time and/or frequency information, for range measurement, for sector or altitude estimation). In one embodiment of the present invention, mobile stations are used to harvest statistical data about wireless access points (e.g., the locations of mobile stations that have received signals from the wireless access points, such as from cellular base stations, wireless local area network access points, repeaters for positioning signals, or other wireless communication transmitters) and to derive location information (e.g., position and coverage area of the wireless access points) for the wireless networks from the collected statistical data.

主权项

1. A method of operating a mobile station, the method comprising:
determining, at the mobile station, first identification information of a first wireless access point of a first wireless network; determining, at the mobile station, first position information that relates to a first position of the mobile station in a signal coverage area of the first wireless access point; and communicating first data indicating a correlation between the first identification information and the first position information from the mobile station to a server which is remote to the first wireless access point, said communicating being through a second wireless access point of a second wireless network which is different than the first wireless network.