SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATION OF WIRELESS COMPUTER NETWORK IN POSITION DETERMINING TECHNOLOGY

• Main Authors: GUM, ARNOLD J, PATRICK, CHRISTOPHER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 31.03.2005
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; TESTING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A wireless communication device, known as a mobile station (MS), contains a conventional wireless communication system and further comprises a wireless computer network communication subsystem and may also include GPS capability . The operator of the MS may utilize any or all of these subsystems to determi ne the current position of the MS. Based on the current position of the MS, location-based services are provided to the MS as sales information, schedules, prices, maps, and the like. In a typical implementation a plurali ty of computer network access points, or beacons, are distributed throughout a geographic region and used to determine the position of the MS with a reasonably high degree of accuracy. Based on the current position of the MS, the beacons can provide location-based services.