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Article: WIPO: Inventors in Japan Develop Electronic Device Location Information Determining Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- October 23, 2008
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GENEVA, Oct. 23 - Ryoko Hizume of Kanagawa, Japan, Etsuko Nakamoto and Yoshitsugu Takaku, both of Tokyo, have developed a method of determining location information for an electronic device.
According to an abstract posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the invention relates to a "method of determining location information for an electronic device, the method comprising receiving initial location information associated with the electronic device, determining proximate access point identifiers which identify a number of access points corresponding to the initial location information, forwarding the proximate access point identifiers, receiving proximate access point ...