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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120050098 | RELIABLE LOCATION INFORMATION FOR A MOBILE STATION USING A NON-GPS LOCATION TECHNIQUE A method and apparatus determines if a location fix received by a mobile station using a non-GPS location techniques is accurate. Location results obtained using the non-GPS location technique or techniques are treated as accurate if they are verified as being within an... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044109 | LOCATION-DETERMINING SYSTEM FOR RADIO CLIENTS WITHIN LOCAL-AREA SPACES Systems, devices, features, and/or methods for determining a location of a mobile device are disclosed. A method may include (a) receiving, into a mobile device, a common RF signal on a common carrier frequency, wherein the common RF signal includes a respective RF sign... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120013509 | FREQUENCY CHANNEL DIVERSITY FOR REAL-TIME LOCATING SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS Provided are architectures, systems, methods, and computer program products for real-time object locating and position determination using frequency channel diversity for transmitting and receiving position determination signals including bursts of location signals. Cha... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120007779 | LOCATION AND TRACKING SYSTEM A location and tracking system (1) comprises a site survey tool (2), a location engine (3), a self-calibration engine (4), and a fingerprint database (5). The system (1) operates for a wireless network of access points in a buil... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110316748 | Device and Method for Estimating an Orientation of a Mobile Terminal Device A device for estimating a current orientation of a mobile terminal device at a current geographical position, wherein, at the current geographical position, a current measurement package may be determined which has a transmitter identification and an electromagnetic sig... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110309983 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIRECTION FINDING FOR ESTIMATING A GEOLOCATION OF AN EMITTER One embodiment of the invention includes a computer readable medium configured to perform a method for determining a three-dimensional geolocation of a terrestrial emitter. The method includes receiving a signal from the emitter at an antenna array. The method also incl... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304503 | SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND RF MODELING The simultaneous localization and RF modeling technique pertains to a method of providing simultaneous localization and radio frequency (RF) modeling. In one embodiment, the technique operates in a space with wireless local area network coverage (or other RF transmitter... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110291885 | ALMANAC MAINTENANCE FOR MOBILE STATION POSITIONING An almanac data management system at a location remote from a cell phone (20) has an almanac memory (44) for containing at least a current version of almanac data (52). A mobile device information memory (48) contains an identification of a v... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285592 | POSITION DETERMINATION METHOD AND GEODETIC MEASURING SYSTEM Position determination method for a target point, using a geodetic measuring device, such as a total station or a theodolite, having a distance and angle measurement functionality, a sighting device, and a first radio module, and using a hand-held data processing device... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285591 | CORRELATING CONTEXTUAL DATA AND POSITION DATA TO IMPROVE LOCATION BASED SERVICES A computer system for correcting position fixes received from a mobile computing device comprises a database and one or more computer server computers. The database is configured to store position fixes and corrected positions received from a plurality of mobile computi... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110279324 | COMPRESSED SENSING FOR NAVIGATION DATA Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for processing positioning signals to obtain navigation information by applying compressed sensing.... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION ON MOBILE DEVICES A system and method for activating a GPS receiver or a WiFi receiver on a mobile device may be provided, which comprises determining an approximate location of the mobile device. The approximate location of the mobile device may be determined using cell tower location i... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110260922 | MAPPING LOCATIONS BASED ON RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTHS Disclosed is a system for updating an RSSI-based map. A scanning devices notes which tags are seen during a scan and measures a “proxy distance” from the scanning device to each tag. When the scan is initiated, the scanning device measures the RSSIs from the local W... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110257812 | VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEM One or more tracked vehicles with wireless broadband connectivity to a central tracking station provide redundant location data derived from an onboard GPS receiver and an onboard self-triangulating cell phone. Tracking data for bar-coded and RFID-tagged items with the ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110248887 | GEOLOCATION LEVERAGING SPOT BEAM OVERLAP A method and system are disclosed for providing an estimate of a location of a user receiver device. The method and system involve emitting from at least one vehicle at least one spot beam on Earth, and receiving with the user receiver device a signal from at least one ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110241942 | MULTIPLEXING RECEIVER SYSTEM A position tracking system includes a transmitter constructed and arranged to emit a electromagnetic signal and an array of at least three receiver antennae. Each of the at least three receiver antennae is constructed and arranged to receive the electromagnetic signal e... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110231092 | REAL-TIME TRACKING OF DIGITAL CAMERAS AND WIRELESS CAPABLE DEVICES A portable device such as a camera comprises a wireless tracking unit for tracking the position of the portable device utilizing wireless internet technologies. When enabled, the portable device automatically determines its global position and uploads the position to a ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110227791 | SELECTING BEACONS FOR LOCATION INFERENCE Location inference using selected beacons. Data is received representing a set of beacons observed by a computing device. The beacons are located within a first geographic area. A subset (e.g., a clique) of the beacons is selected based on a coverage area of each of the... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110227790 | CUCKOO HASHING TO STORE BEACON REFERENCE DATA Storing and retrieving beacon reference data in a truncated cuckoo hash table. Checksums of beacon identifiers associated with beacons are used to retrieve beacon reference data describing locations of the beacons in a hash table. The data is stored in one or more hash ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110221634 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POSITION AND TRACK DETERMINATION The present disclosure describes a method and system for detecting and determining the position of a target or intruder using a plurality of sensors positioned throughout a secured perimeter and a single antenna. The system of the present disclosure detects and determin... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110215966 | APPARATUS, METHOD, MANUFACTURE, AND SYSTEM FOR SENSING SUBSTITUTION FOR LOCATION-BASED APPLICATIONS A method and apparatus for communicating over a network is provided. The method includes selecting between location-sensing methods for an LBA, such as between GPS and network triangulation. For each location-sensing method, a dynamic determination is made as to whether... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110205125 | INFERRING BEACON POSITIONS BASED ON SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS Estimating positions of beacons based on spatial relationships among neighboring beacons. Beacon reference data defining positions of beacons is stored from beacon fingerprints observed by devices (e.g., enabled with global positioning system receivers). For a received ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110205108 | Method for Position Estimation Using Generalized Error Distributions A method for improving the results of radio location systems that incorporate weighted least squares optimization generalizes the weighted least squares method by using maximum a posteriori (MAP) probability metrics to incorporate characteristics of the specific positio... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199255 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A POSITION FIX INDOORS A location server may be operable to refine a location for a RF node based on a weight applied to one or more location samples that are received from one or more mobile devices. The received location samples may be weighted based on a manufacturer and/or a model informa... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199257 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING ALTITUDE INFORMATION FOR A LOCATION BY USING TERRAIN MODEL INFORMATION TO PRIME ALTITUDE SENSORS Methods and systems for updating altitude information for a location by using terrain model information to prime altitude sensors are disclosed and may include determining an altitude of a wireless device including one or more altimeters. The determination of altitude m... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110187598 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING POSITION USING DUAL REAL TIME KINEMATIC ENGINES A method and system for estimating the position comprises measuring a first carrier phase of a first carrier signal and a second carrier phase of a second carrier signal received by a location-determining receiver. A primary real time kinematic (RTK) engine or receiver ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110169697 | GPS-ASSISTED SOURCE AND RECEIVER LOCATION ESTIMATION A mobile communication device includes, in part, a first wireless receiver adapted to determine, as it travels along a path, a multitude of positions of the mobile communication device using signals received from a primary positioning source, a second wireless receiver ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110163916 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AN OBJECT WITHIN A BUILDING OR STRUCTURE A system for locating objects within a building having walls. The system incorporates the use of electronic identification tags that wireless communicate with both a stationary base device and a movable handheld device. Through triangulation, the location of the object ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110148711 | POSITIONING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME A communication system for supporting a positioning operation within a specific area includes a system server and a communication device. The system server receives training location data corresponding to m training locations, wherein m is a natural number greater than ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110133989 | EMERGENCY RESCUE SYSTEM AND RESCUE-INFORMATION JUDGMENT METHOD An emergency rescue system and a rescue-information judgment method are disclosed. The emergency rescue system includes a plurality of fixed nodes, a dynamic node and a back-end processing platform. Each fixed node has its own fixed node identification. The dynamic node... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110128183 | ROBUST LOCATION ESTIMATION A method of collecting information for supplementing a trusted estimate of position. The method comprises: receiving first information sufficient to derive a trusted estimate of a first position; receiving an indication that a supplementary estimate of a second position... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110115671 | DETERMINATION OF ELEVATION OF MOBILE STATION A mobile station determines it elevation based on the determined position of mobile station and a database of elevation data. The determined elevation of the mobile station may be used to vertically position a computer generated graphics in an image produced by the mobi... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110109508 | LOCATION PROOFS A wireless computing device includes an antenna that is configured to transmit and receive wireless signals. The wireless computing device comprises a transmitter component that causes a first wireless signal to be transmitted to a wireless access point via the antenna,... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110112768 | Scalable GeoFences The subject matter disclosed herein relates to location-based tracking using geofences.... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110102264 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING INTERIOR POSITION USING DIGITAL BROADCASTING SIGNAL Provided is a receiving apparatus for detecting an interior position using digital broadcasting signals includes: a receiving unit receiving a digital broadcasting signal, which includes navigation information used for determining a position of the receiving apparatus, ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110084881 | IDENTIFYING NEIGHBORS OF GEO-SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED RADIO TRANSMITTERS Processes and systems are presented, for identifying a set of neighbors of a radio transmitter based on available geo-spatial coordinates of radio transmitters in operation around the world. In one aspect, the identified set of radio transmitters can be have a desired s... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110068981 | Apparatus and Method for Constructing and Utilizing a Beacon Location Database A method to support client device position discovery within a building includes ascribing building position coordinates to beacons within the building. The building position coordinates are converted to physical position coordinates. The physical position coordinates ar... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110054780 | LOCATION TRACKING FOR MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE A mobile computing device comprises a wireless transceiver and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to store a data set for a predetermined location, the data set comprising location data and a location name. The processing circuit is further confi... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110050503 | POWER SAVING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE A mobile computing device includes a housing, a processor provided within the housing, and a location-determining system configured to determine a current location of the mobile computing device at a first rate. The location determining system may be configured to adjus... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110053614 | POSITION INFORMATION SYSTEM A positioning information transmitter transmits a positioning identifier instead of directly transmitting position information. A positioning information management server stores and manages the positioning identifier and the position information while correlating them ... | 03/03/2011 |
