[8] How it works This system utilizes IP addresses to determine the physical locations of internet users by analyzing network paths and associating them with geographic data.
Widely adopted in industries like e-commerce and online advertising, this method became a fundamental tool for personalizing content and optimizing marketing strategies based on users' locations.
This system allows mobile devices to pinpoint user location based on nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular towers, offering a solution for outdoor and indoor positioning where GPS signals may be weak.
[9] Navizon is a patented technology[10] based on a collaborative database compiled by users with GPS devices who collect positional information of Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular signals.
Smartphones scan for nearby Wi-Fi access points and send a list of detected networks (along with their MAC addresses and signal strength) to a server.
), a Wi-Fi positioning system to track WiFi enabled devices such as smartphones, tablets and notebooks, to analyze people's traffic inside a building or throughout a venue with room-level accuracy.
[20] Houri was called by Apple to testify and named as co-defendant, to provide early documentation for the Buddy Finder from Navizon, in order to demonstrate that it was prior art to Agis Software's patent.
Houri holds more than 20 patents,[21] most of which are related to geolocation and geofencing[22] systems and solutions, including the use of Computer vision for people and assets tracking and to provide real-time positioning to moving vehicles, such as forklifts, drones, UGV and UAV.
Houri was called to testify on behalf of the plaintiff groups and demonstrated that geolocation technology could be used to block at least 90% of France-based users from accessing the offending Yahoo!