Systems and methods for learning wireless transceiver locations and updating a spatially-dependent path-loss model

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15611727

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An indoor positioning system determines the location of a mobile device by comparing measured signal strengths to a database determined via offline calibration. Automated maintenance and repair of the database are facilitated by accurately characterizing indoor radio signal propagation. Systems and methods for generating spatially-dependent path-loss models are disclosed. In one variation, a computer-implemented method of generating a spatially-dependent path-loss model involves dividing a coordinate-plane representing an indoor environment into non-overlapping tiles; obtaining transmit and received signal strengths of radio signals generated by a calibration device at a number of reference points and measured at a number of wireless access points; calculating vectors which represent the traversal distances of the tiles by each of the radio signals; and solving a system of path-loss equations relating the transmit signal strengths, the received signal strengths, and the distance vectors to determine values for tile-specific path-loss coefficients for each of the tiles.

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ATHENTEK INNOVATIONS INC2225 BAYSHORE ROAD #200 PALO ALTO CA 94303

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De, Lorenzo David S Palo Alto, US 42 678
Tseng, Ivy H Taipei, TW 11 47
Wang, Yi-Hsiu Palo Alto, US 38 479
Ye, Huanchun Cupertino, US 30 681

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