Location service requests throttling

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9288615
APP PUB NO 20140171112A1
SERIAL NO

14188351

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A technique to allow a server such as a location server to throttle concurrent or closely timed location requests for the position of a given wireless device such that within a certain time period preferably only one location request will be initiated to the positioning engine and the remaining closely-timed location requests will be buffered or cached. When a position for the given wireless device is returned per the outstanding location request, then the retrieved position will be used to respond to each of the buffered location requests. Thus, a plurality of location requests are satisfied with a single request to the positioning engine. By optimizing the use of cached position requests, throttling of location requests per the invention reduces network traffic significantly, increases the efficiency of a positioning server (therefore reducing business cost), and provides for an improved grade or quality of location based services in general.

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TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS INC275 WEST STREET ANNAPOLIS MD 21401

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Burton, Victor Bellevue, US 33 656
Hines, Gordon John Kirkland, US 53 804
Liao, Hsin-Chih Mill Creek, US 15 50
Zhu, Yinjun Sammamish, US 58 1322

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