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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8151170 | System and method for enhanced data decode in a GPS receiver Systems and methods are disclosed herein for improving the sensitivity of satellite data decode in a satellite navigation receiver. The low signal ephemeris data decoding system of the present disclosure achieves a 5 db improvement in decoding sensitivity over conve... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134502 | Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in GNSS receivers Systems and methods are disclosed to use adaptive continuous tracking (ACT) to reduce the power consumption of GNSS receivers. In GNSS receivers, a longer observation time of the satellites translates into better positioning accuracy but also consumes more power. AC... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8111791 | Differential evolution design of polyphase IIR decimation filters A method for designing a digital filter, includes: (a) selecting a predetermined number of current sets of coefficients for the digital filter; (b) selecting a metric for evaluating coefficients of the digital filter; (c) computing a metric for each current set of c... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103289 | System of utilizing cell information to locate a wireless device A system is described that utilizes the measured characteristics of a cell site or a plurality of cell sites (100, 102, 104) and the cellular identification to selectively provide a wireless device (118) with location aiding from a cellular network ser... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098765 | Reducing and sharing computations for GPS signal processing Methods and systems for processing a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal are provided. A method includes: transforming a time domain GPS signal to a frequency domain GPS signal; storing a frequency domain pseudorandom noise (PRN) signal; correlating the frequency... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8078189 | System and method for providing location based services over a network In a method for providing location-based information over a network, a plurality of GPS reference data sets, corresponding to a plurality of respective local areas, are acquired at intervals such that each GPS reference data set is updated on a continuous basis. A p... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069314 | Shared memory architecture in GPS signal processing A shared memory architecture for a GPS receiver, wherein a processing memory is shared among the different processing functions, such as the correlator signal processing, tracking processing, and other applications processing. The shared memory architecture within t... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8009090 | System and method for dynamic voltage scaling in a GPS receiver Systems and methods are disclosed herein to dynamically vary supply voltages and clock frequencies, also known as dynamic voltage scaling (DVS), in GPS receivers to minimize receiver power consumption while meeting performance requirements. For the baseband circuitr... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000723 | System of utilizing cell information to locate a wireless device A system is described that utilizes the measured characteristics of a cell site or a plurality of cell sites (100, 102, 104) and the cellular identification to selectively provide a wireless device (118) with location aiding from a cellular network ser... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7983666 | Cancellation system and method for a wireless positioning system A cancellation system that delays the received signals and cancels less than all the received signals from the delayed version of the received signals and a demodulator and despreader unit produces a demodulated and de-spreader and remodulator unit produces a remodu... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979207 | Systems and methods for detecting a vehicle static condition Systems and methods for detecting a vehicle static condition are provided. In this regard, a representative system includes a sensor operative to detect at least one of acceleration and angular rate of a vehicle. The sensor is further operative to generate a vehicle... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974642 | System and method for estimating cell center position for cell ID based positioning Systems and methods for estimating a cell center location in a wireless communication system having all interface to a satellite positioning system (“SPS”) such as for example, a Geosynchronous Positioning System (“GPS”). The wireless communication system pr... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970412 | Aided location communication system An Aided Location Communication System (“ALCS”) is described that may include a geolocation server and a wireless communication device having a GPS section where the GPS receiver section is capable of being selectively switched between a standalone mode and at l... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970411 | Aided location communication system An Aided Location Communication System (“ALCS”) is described that may include a geolocation server and a wireless communication device having a GPS section where the GPS receiver section is capable of being selectively switched between a standalone mode and at l... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969351 | Mode determination for mobile GPS terminals The present invention discloses a system for determining the position of a GPS terminal. The system comprises a GPS terminal, a location aiding server, and a communications system. Messages are passed between the GPS terminal and the server, as well as within the GP... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7949362 | Satellite positioning aided communication system selection A software communication device with a tunable transceiver that is capable of receipt of both satellite positioning data and a communication network with a wireless network where positioning data is used to efficiently make a connection to the communication network ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7933627 | GPS RF front end IC with frequency plan for improved integrability A GPS RF Front End IC using a single conversion stage, which is immune from self jamming from clock signal harmonics generated internally or from dominant clock signal harmonics generated externally by the subsequent baseband GPS processor which uses a clock of 48... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925210 | Synchronizing a radio network with end user radio terminals Synchronizing a Radio Network with End User Radio Terminals A Mobile Station that is able to receive GPS signals and compare the frequency of the GPS received time signal with a time signal from a network in order to determine the difference between the signals and ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920620 | Method for reducing the calculation complexity for code acquisition and correlation The present invention determines those mathematical processes that are repeated in the standard search schema, and uses this information to simplify the process by eliminating repetition of processes that have already been performed. The present information can be i... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7889780 | Method of estimating doppler spread and signal-to-noise ratio of a received signal A method for estimating a Doppler spread and a signal-to-noise ratio of a received signal includes: (a) calculating one or more functions of a carrier component of the received signal at a first time point relative to a pilot signal embedded in the received signal; ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881407 | Systems and methods for mitigating multipath signals Systems and methods for mitigating multipath signals in a receiver are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes a receiver comprising an antenna being configured to receive signals from a plurality of satellites, and a computing devi... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7869948 | Method and apparatus in positioning without broadcast ephemeris Provided herein are methods and system for enabling a navigation receiver to generate receiver specific satellite orbital models based on relatively small sets of parameters obtained from a server. In an embodiment, a set of parameters for a satellite includes a for... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7852905 | System and method for despreading in a spread spectrum matched filter Implementation of an improved matched filter system for despreading a PN code from a spread spectrum signal utilizes a matched filter system that may be broadly conceptualized as a system that optimizes the number of multipliers and adders utilized by the system in ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7839331 | Satellite clock prediction Devices and methods are described for determining position information without broadcast ephemeris data for a spanned time period using predictions of future satellite states. These predictions include predictions of satellite clock bias. During the spanned time per... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839330 | Determining position without current broadcast ephemeris Devices and methods are described for determining position information without broadcast ephemeris data for extended time periods. A client device is disclosed that stores satellite states determined from broadcast ephemeris and numerically integrates equations of m... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839324 | Efficient ephemeris coding In one embodiment, a system is provided that is operable to: predict satellite states using historical satellite state data for at least one satellite of a satellite-based positioning system; derive sets of parameters representative of the predicted satellite states... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7822105 | Cross-correlation removal of carrier wave jamming signals A receiver capable of receiving a spread spectrum signal and having a crosscorrelator that enables a carrier wave (CW) jamming to be identified, tracked, replicated and removed from the received spread spectrum signal after demodulation of a weak signal has occurred... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7821454 | Systems and methods for detecting GPS measurement errors Systems and methods for detecting global positioning system (GPS) measurement errors are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes a navigation device that is configured to receive GPS signals from signal sources, the navigation devic... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7813875 | Layered host based satellite positioning solutions Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a host based positioning system. The host based positioning system includes a tracker hardware interface that connects to a dedicated hardware space vehicle tracker. The tracker hardware interface rec... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813454 | Apparatus and method for tracking symbol timing of OFDM modulation in a multi-path channel Methods and Systems for tracking symbol timing of an OFDM signal are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless receiver includes signal tracking and timing logic to facilitate the timing of a demodulation operation such that the demodulation operation occurs on the p... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7800535 | Multi-function device with positioning system and shared processor A multi-function device with a positioning function and a real time positioning engine is disclosed. The device contains also a shared processor used by the positioning function and other functions of the device, such as a mobile radio-communication function. The po... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7786932 | Time-to-first-fix for position determination An improved time-to-first-fix (TTFF) for GPS systems is provided through a comparison of the time-of-week (TOW) to the sub-frame identification (ID). In one embodiment, this comparison comprises dividing the TOW to form a ratio and performing a modulus operation on ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7760040 | Method of eliminating temperature induced band switching in ultra wideband voltage controlled oscillator A method and a voltage-controlled oscillator provide an output signal with a frequency within one of a plurality of frequency bands, while reducing or eliminating temperature-induced band-switching or other drifts in operating frequency. The band-switching is reduce... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756639 | System and method for augmenting a satellite-based navigation solution A map-matching feedback interface uses added information to bound a mapping solution and calibrate a navigation system, thus enabling the navigation system to navigate more accurately over a longer period of time. The system recognizes erroneous measurements and red... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751974 | Navigation processing for a satellite positioning system receiver A method for navigation processing in a satellite positioning system receiver is disclosed. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises separating the three SATPS satellites into a first pair and a second pair, constructing a primary solution and an ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751791 | L1/L2 GPS receiver In a system and method for simultaneously receiving or switching between dual frequency carrier signals in a GPS receiver, the GPS receiver is adapted to utilize different harmonics of a sub-harmonic frequency generator, which may include a lower frequency voltage c... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747259 | Method and system for sending location coded images over a wireless network A system is described that utilizes an imager in a wireless device (102) in a wireless network (100) and transmits a digital image to a service center (120) that assists in identifying the location of the wireless device (102) within a ce... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747236 | Method and apparatus for estimating local oscillator frequency for GPS receivers The present invention is a method and apparatus that produces an estimate of the local oscillator (LO) frequency error using an external reference signal. The error estimate can be used for LO calibration, correction and other purposes. The present invention does no... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7729413 | Spread spectrum receiver with multi-bit correlator A system and a method to track GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite signal in a GPS receiver that includes an expanded capture window to rapidly reacquire the satellite signal after the satellite signal has been obstructed or when there is other type of signal ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7724612 | System and method for providing aiding information to a satellite positioning system receiver over short-range wireless connections Systems and methods for obtaining corrected time information in a GPS-enabled device connected to a mobile handset via a short-range wireless network, such as a Bluetooth™ Piconet™. The mobile handset includes a GPS time and a network clock synchronized with a n... | 05/25/2010 |
