US 11,700,503 B2
Crowd sourced location determination
Ryan Yong Kim, Rolling Hills Estates, CA (US); Jon Plummer, Los Angeles, CA (US); and David Shao, Gardenia, CA (US)
Assigned to Belkin International, Inc., Playa Vista, CA (US)
Filed by Belkin International, Inc., Playa Vista, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/537,134.
Application 17/537,134 is a continuation of application No. 16/941,179, filed on Jul. 28, 2020, granted, now 11,234,097.
Application 16/941,179 is a continuation of application No. 16/522,034, filed on Jul. 25, 2019, granted, now 10,764,710, issued on Sep. 1, 2020.
Application 16/522,034 is a continuation of application No. 16/109,527, filed on Aug. 22, 2018, granted, now 10,412,542, issued on Sep. 10, 2019.
Application 16/109,527 is a continuation of application No. 15/649,324, filed on Jul. 13, 2017, granted, now 10,171,939, issued on Jan. 1, 2019.
Application 15/649,324 is a continuation in part of application No. 14/958,685, filed on Dec. 3, 2015, granted, now 9,712,963, issued on Jul. 18, 2017.
Application 14/958,685 is a continuation in part of application No. 14/798,734, filed on Jul. 14, 2015, granted, now 10,021,517, issued on Jul. 10, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/087,657, filed on Dec. 4, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/087,700, filed on Dec. 4, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/024,702, filed on Jul. 15, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2022/0232344 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/50 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 4/021 (2013.01) [H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/50 (2018.02); H04W 64/003 (2013.01); H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04W 56/0005 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network device comprising:
one or more processing devices;
a non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium containing instructions which when executed by the one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
processing a tracking signal received from a second network device, wherein the tracking signal comprises an identifier of the second network device;
identifying location information of the network device;
determining a distance between the network device and the second network device;
determining a location of the second network device using the location information and the determined distance; and
causing communication of second location information corresponding to the location of the second network device and the identifier of the second network device to a network server and/or another device.