Patents by Inventor Alistair Edwin Adams

Alistair Edwin Adams has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods and systems for associating location information with a wireless local area network
    Patent number: 8478304
    Abstract: A mobile device operating in a cellular communication network determines its current location via the cellular communication network, for example, by triangulation of the base stations of the cellular communication network. At its current location, the mobile device also detects a wireless local area network (WLAN) such as a Wi-Fi network. The mobile device then sends the location information and an ID of the WLAN to a network based database server, which creates an entry to store data associating the location information with the WLAN. The mobile device can also store data associating the location with the WLAN in a local storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Ram Adva Fish David, Dilip Raghu Kenchammana-Hosekote, Alistair Edwin Adams