Uber Technologies, Inc.
LOCATION ACCURACY USING LOCAL TRANSMITTERS

Abstract:

Systems and methods are provided for receiving a unique identifier for a local transmitter and a signal strength for the local transmitter, determining a position and channel parameters of the local transmitter based on the unique identifier for the local transmitter, converting the signal strength for the local transmitter into a distance measurement using the channel parameters, the distance measurement indicating a distance of a computing device to the position of the local transmitter, and calculating a location of the computing device using the distance measurement and position of the local transmitter.