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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080039116 | Method and Apparatus for Compensating an Oscillator in a Location-Enabled Wireless Device A method and apparatus for compensating an oscillator in a location-enabled wireless device is described. In an example, a mobile device includes a wireless receiver for receiving wireless signals and a GPS receiver for receiving GPS signals. The mobile device also incl... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080036650 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Absolute Time-of-Day in a Mobile-Assisted Satellite Positioning System A method and apparatus for determining time-of-day in a mobile receiver is described. In one example, expected pseudoranges to a plurality of satellites are obtained. The expected pseudoranges are based on an initial position of the mobile receiver and an initial time-o... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070274374 | Method and apparatus for performing signal correlation for signals received from satellites in multiple satellite systems A method and apparatus for computing a convolution between a satellite signal from one of a plurality of satellite positioning systems and a pseudorandom code reference. The method and apparatus is capable of operating in multiple modes of resolution so as to enhance th... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070260399 | Method and apparatus for generating and distributing satellite tracking information A method and apparatus for generating and distributing satellite tracking data to a remote receiver is disclosed. The method for includes extracting from satellite-tracking data initial model parameters representing a current orbit of at least one satellite-positioning-... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070192029 | Method and Apparatus for Generating and Securely Distributing Long-Term Satellite Tracking Information A method and apparatus for generating and distributing satellite tracking data to a remote receiver is disclosed. The method for includes extracting from memory at least a portion of long-term-satellite-tracking data, generating formatted data from the at least a portio... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070171125 | Method and system for determining time in a satellite positioning system Method and apparatus for receiving an estimate of time in a satellite signal receiver receives an estimate of time from a server and compensates for error of a clock in the satellite signal receiver using the estimate of time. The output of the compensated clock is used... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20060276223 | Method and apparatus for adjusting reference oscillator frequency in a mobile wireless device A method and apparatus for using a conventional oscillator in a cellular telephone transceiver as a source of a reference signal for a GPS receiver. In one embodiment, the method comprises using a voltage-controlled oscillator (“VCXO”) within a cellular telephone tr... | 12/07/2006 |
| 20060114970 | Method and apparatus for performing signal correlation at multiple resolutions to mitigate multipath interference A method and apparatus for selecting a signal processing resolution. A received signal is processed using a first resolution. When a multipath condition is detected, the signal is processed using a second resolution. ... | 06/01/2006 |