Wi-Fi tile transfer

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9686692
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14221213

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Various technologies described herein pertain to transferring geospatial tiles for Wi-Fi networks. A geospatial tile specifies a geographic region and includes data pertaining to a plurality of Wi-Fi networks having respective geographic coverage areas within the geographic region. A mobile device can receive an indicator that corresponds to a geospatial tile for retrieval by the mobile device. Further, the mobile device can request the geospatial tile from a tile management system based upon the indicator. Upon receiving the geospatial tile from the tile management system, the mobile device stores the geospatial tile in a tile cache. Further, the mobile device can automatically connect to a particular Wi-Fi network from the plurality of Wi-Fi networks utilizing data for the particular Wi-Fi network included in the geospatial tile when the mobile device is positioned within a geographic coverage area of the particular Wi-Fi network.

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MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLCONE MICROSOFT WAY C/O MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND WA 98052

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Guday, Shai Redmond, US 108 3418
Saba, Maher Afif Seattle, US 26 407

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