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| 20110080848 | ROUTING GRAPHS FOR BUILDINGS USING SCHEMATICS - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems, methods, etc. for creating a routing graph based at least partly on building information, which may include relatively low-detail schematics. For certain example implementations, a method may include obtaining building information descriptive of at least a portion of a building structure and superimposing a grid of points onto the building information. The building information may be analyzed using the superimposed grid of points by projecting multiple rays from multiple points of the superimposed grid of points. At least one routing graph may be created responsive to the analyzing and based at least in part on the superimposed grid of points and the building information. Other example implementations are described herein. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110082638 | ROUTING GRAPHS FOR BUILDINGS - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems, methods, etc. for creating a routing graph based at least partly on building information. For certain example implementations, a method includes obtaining building information descriptive of at least a portion of a building structure. A grid of points may be superimposed onto the building information. At least one routing graph may be created based at least in part on the superimposed grid of points and the building information. Other example implementations are also described. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110084804 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUILDING ANNOTATION LAYERS BASED ON LOCATION AWARE USER CONTEXT INFORMATION - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for determining annotations for a map. Location information for mobile devices and contextual information associated with users of mobile devices may be utilized to determine such annotations. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110085707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED DETERMINATION OF FEATURES ON AN ELECTRONIC MAP - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for automatically identifying features of an electronic map. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110090081 | MAPPING WIRELESS SIGNALS WITH MOTION SENSORS - A displacement device for mapping wireless signal fingerprints includes motion sensors and at least one of a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) sensor and a round trip time (RTT) sensor. The motion sensors may include a pedometer and one or more sensors to receive turn information. The start position of the displacement device is initialized and as the displacement device is moved through an environment, the position of each measurement location is determined using the initialized position and data from the motion sensors. The measurement position along with the RSSI and/or RTT measurement is stored in a database, from which a map can be generated. The position of the access point may be determined using the RSSI measurement or RTT measurement. Additionally, accumulated errors in the measurement position may be monitored and when greater than a threshold, a user may be prompted to reinitialize the position of the displacement device. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110136503 | HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION DISSEMINATION FOR LOCATION BASED SYSTEMS - Techniques are provided which may be implemented in various methods and/or apparatuses that support information dissemination for and/or within location based systems to control information dissemination. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110172906 | Scalable Routing For Mobile Station Navigation With Location Context Identifier - Examples disclosed herein may relate to identifying up to a specified amount of points of interest nearest to an estimated position of a mobile station on a first map, selecting a second map identified by a first location context identifier associated with a first point of interest of the identified points of interest, and determining a route from the estimated position of the mobile station to a destination point using the first map and the second map. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110179027 | AUTOMATIC LINKING OF POINTS OF INTEREST FOR INDOOR LOCATION BASED SEARCHING - A database of the location based relationships of points of interest within an environment is automatically generated using a digital representation of the environment that includes the points of interest at different locations within the environment. The locations of the points of interest in the environment are identified and the location based relationships between the points of interest are determined. The points of interest are labeled with the determined relationships and the points of interest and labeled relationships are stored. For example, a graph structure may be produced where each node is a point of interest and the edges between nodes is labeled with the determined relationships. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110184945 | LOCATION AWARE RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a location aware recommendation engine. In response to a recommendation request, relevant recommendations may be ranked based on the current location of a user, location associated with an entity, and/or accessibility criteria. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110195687 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for facilitating communication between a user of a mobile station and an emergency responder. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20120021771 | Methods And Apparatuses For Determining If Access To A Region Is Feasible Or Infeasible For A User Of A Mobile Device - Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a mobile device to allow the mobile device to obtain map information associated with at least a portion of an indoor environment comprising a plurality of regions. The mobile device may also obtain additional measurement information associated with at least the portion of the indoor environment, wherein the additional measurement information is based, at least in part, on previously obtained estimated position measurement information associated with a plurality of mobile devices within the indoor environment. The mobile device may determine whether access to at least one of the plurality of regions is either feasible or infeasible to a user associated with the mobile device. The determination may be based, at least in part, on the map information and the additional measurement information. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120029817 | MAP HANDLING FOR LOCATION BASED SERVICES IN CONJUNCTION WITH LOCALIZED ENVIRONMENTS - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems, methods, apparatuses, devices, articles, and means for map handling for location based services in conjunction with localized environments. For certain example implementations, a method may comprise storing map information corresponding to a particular localized environment that is associated with a particular location context identifier, with the particular localized environment comprising an indoor environment corresponding to at least a portion of a building structure; receiving update information applicable to the map information corresponding to the particular localized environment, with the update information being associated with the particular location context identifier; updating the map information corresponding to the particular localized environment based at least partly on the update information so as to produce updated map information; and providing the updated map information to one or more mobile devices that are located at the particular localized environment. Other example implementations are described herein. | 02-02-2012 |
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| 20120016670 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR IDENTIFYING AUDIBLE SAMPLES FOR USE IN A SPEECH RECOGNITION CAPABILITY OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Techniques for provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a mobile device to allow for speech recognition based, at least in part, on context information associated with at least a portion of at least one navigational region, e.g., associated with a location of the mobile device. A speech recognition capability may, for example, be provided with a set of audible samples based, at least in part, on the context information. Such speech recognition capability may be provided by the mobile device and/or by one or more other devices coupled to the mobile device. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016872 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR USE IN GENERATING AN ENCODED ROUTEABILITY GRAPH DESCRIPTION - Methods and apparatuses are provided that may be implemented in one or more electronic devices to generate an encoded routeability graph description corresponding to a diagram of a structure. The methods and apparatuses may, for example, implement a reduction process to reduce a number of grid points within an encoded routeability graph description, or which may be otherwise used to generate an encoded routeability graph description. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120028654 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MOBILE STATION CENTRIC DETERMINATION OF POSITIONING ASSISTANCE DATA - Methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented in various devices to generate positioning assistance data and/or the like by mobile station with regard to at least one of a plurality of different indoor regions. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120044265 | INDOOR LIKELIHOOD HEATMAP - The subject matter disclosed herein may relate to methods, apparatuses, systems, devices, articles, or means for generating or using an indoor likelihood heatmap, etc. For certain example implementations, a method for a device may comprise projecting multiple grid points over a schematic map of an indoor area, with the schematic map indicating multiple obstructions of the indoor area. Feasible paths between grid point pairs of the multiple grid points may be determined. For a particular grid point of the multiple grid points, a count of the feasible paths that traverse the particular grid point may be determined. A likelihood heatmap for use in one or more navigational applications may be generated based, at least in part, on the count. Other example implementations are described herein. | 02-23-2012 |
