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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7889122 | Refractivity retrieval via direct measurement of GNSS bending angle A method and system for taking direct measurements of GNSS signal's arrival angle to remotely measure the atmospheric variables used for weather prediction. More specifically, an improved method and system for obtaining and processing accurate information regarding ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7436907 | Analog compression of GPS C/A signal to audio bandwidth The present invention discloses analog methods and circuits for compression of the GPS C/A signal to audio bandwidths to improve TTFF times, as well as decreasing auto correlation errors in systems that employ the methods and devices disclosed. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426447 | Method and system for monitoring structural damage A method for monitoring damage to a structure having an actuator and a sensor. The method includes exciting the actuator across a predetermined frequency range to excite the structure, measuring a vibrational characteristic of the structure across the predetermined ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7409188 | Method and apparatus for lowering power use by a ranging receiver Equipment and a method by which power consumed by a ranging receiver (12) is reduced without appreciably impairing performance of the GPS receiver (12), the method including: a step (21) in which a controller (15) reads sensor signals pro... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406311 | Method and apparatus for selectively operating satellites in tundra orbits A satellite system provides geosynchronous satellites in elliptical orbits in respective elliptical orbital planes separated by 120 degrees. The satellites traverse a common figure-eight ground track comprising northern and southern loops. The satellites are control... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7369830 | Monolithic GPS RF front end integrated circuit A highly integrated GPS RF Front End which uses a single conversion stage employs an image rejection mixer stage to eliminate the need for an image reject RF bandpass filter. Also a relatively high sample rate A/D is employed which allows a timeless monolitic IF Fil... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369847 | Fixed cell communication system with reduced interference A communication system has a high altitude communication device that has an antenna for directing beams to a fixed cell pattern with a polarity of cells. A specific pattern of cells having the same communication resource is provided. Preferably, cells having the sam... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366463 | Military UHF and commercial Geo-mobile system combination for radio signal relay A radio signal relay device such as satellite is used to cover several relatively small geographical regions with relatively narrow beams as well as a relatively large geographical region with a single beam. This relatively wide beam permits legacy equipment to be u... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362262 | Method and apparatus for providing an integrated communications, navigation and surveillance satellite system An integrated communications, navigation and surveillance system includes a plurality of satellites in communication with one another and broadcasting navigation signals. The satellites are capable of bi-directional communication and of receiving and relaying survei... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358897 | Apparatus, methods and computer program products for GPS signal acquisition using an adaptive search engine A GPS receiver includes a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to receive a carrier-modulated signal and to provide an adaptive GPS search engine operative to search the carrier-modulated signal for GPS signals over a variable number of carrier timing hypothese... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355867 | Power supply for an electric meter having a high-voltage regulator that limits the voltage applied to certain components below the normal operating input voltage Disclosed is an invention relating to a power supply for use in an apparatus for measuring electrical energy, comprising, in one embodiment, a first switching device, a device for storing electrical charge in electrical connection with the first switching device, a ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350232 | System for secure communications A system and method for secure communications 18 uses a satellite 12 or other central processor with the ability to integrate information from all layers 22 of communications into a security control plane 20. These layers may include, but... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349705 | Wireless remote location system and method A wireless subscriber unit for a tracking and locating system and method is disclosed. The locating system provides positional information of remote locator devices in the form of images viewable by subscribers over a network. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339524 | Analog decorrelation of ranging signals In a local positioning system, a receiver is adapted for receiving signals from a land-based transmitter. The receiver includes an analog decorrelator for decorrelating the transmitted spread spectrum signals. A down converter connected with an antenna may be spaced... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336189 | Human locator system and method A human locator system and method conducts long-range locating with components or steps that are not readily visible on the person of the lost human, and that is fully independent of external communications and power systems. The human subject is provided with a bea... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333815 | Power-saving remote locator system and method A server for authenticating subscribers in a tracking and locating system and method is disclosed. The locating system provides positional information of locator devices in the form of pages viewable by subscribers over a network. ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333053 | Signal path system and method for a ranging signal receiver Methods and receivers determine a range from radio frequency ranging signals at multiple frequencies. The number of dedicated RF sections and correlation processing power is reduced by multiplexing signals from a sub-set of frequencies onto a common path. The common... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327107 | System and methods for automatically moving access barriers initiated by mobile transmitter devices An operator system and related methods for automatically controlling access barriers which includes a base controller associated with at least one access barrier and at least one base receiver associated with the base controller. The system also includes at least on... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327262 | System and method for electronic article surveillance There is disclosed a system and method for electronic article surveillance wherein the time taken for articles to move from a starting point to a destination point by way of a series of zones is monitored in real time, taking into account bottleneck and non-bottlene... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327258 | System for, and method of, monitoring the movements of mobile items A system monitors parameters (e.g., speed, position, threshold boundaries) of mobile items attached to beacons and produces signals indicating these parameters. The system also monitors non-mobile parameters (e.g., battery life, door locks, windows) in the items. Di... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327108 | System and methods for automatically moving access barriers initiated by mobile transmitter devices An operator system and related methods for automatically controlling access barriers which includes a base controller associated with at least one access barrier and at least one base receiver associated with the base controller. The system also includes at least on... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323970 | Method and system for remote interaction with a vehicle via wireless communication A telemetry system coupled to a vehicle can communicate with a remote site using the overhead control channels of a wireless network, such as a cellular mobile radiotelephone network. The telemetry system can monitor or control aspects of the vehicle's operations ba... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321776 | Estimating GPS time at cellular terminals based on timing of information from base stations and satellites A mobile terminal generates an estimate of GPS time. The mobile terminal includes a cellular receiver, a GPS receiver, and a processor. The cellular receiver is configured to receive communication signals from cells in a wireless communication system. The GPS receiv... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321775 | Method for obtaining location related information allowing to locate a terminal attached to a communication network The present invention concerns a method for obtaining location information on the location of a terminal (UE) attached to a communication network, said method comprising the steps of: issuing, by an application (LCS_CLIENT) requiring such location information, a req... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321754 | Radio-frequency signal frequency conversion device for a low power RF receiver The radio-frequency signal frequency conversion device generates intermediate complex signals (IF) for a correlation stage of a low power RF receiver. In order to do this, the device includes a first selective pass-band filter for filtering radio-frequency signals p... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317696 | Method for in-band signaling of data over digital wireless telecommunications networks An inband signaling modern communicates digital data over a voice channel of a wireless telecommunications networks. An input receives digital data. An encoder converts the digital data into audio tones that synthesize frequency characteristics of human speech. The ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317752 | Method and system for locating a GPS correlated peak signal A global positioning system (GPS) receiver is provided, comprising a converter for converting received GPS signals to in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) digital signals; a correlator for generating expected codes and correlating the I and Q digital signals with t... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315569 | Method and system for locating a GPS correlated peak signal A global positioning system (GPS) receiver is provided, comprising a converter for converting received GPS signals to in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) digital signals; a correlator for generating expected codes and correlating the I and Q digital signals with t... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315781 | System and method for determining orientation based on solar positioning Determination of the orientation of a unit is based on solar positioning. An actual measurement of the position of the sun is taken and compared to a theoretical determination of the position of the sun. By comparing the actual and theoretical positions, the orienta... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315532 | Time-divided transmission between adjacent cells In a DVB-T network, a single channel is shared between transmitters associated with adjacent cells on a time-division basis. Timing allocation information signals are received at each transmitter, where it is determined therefrom and from a common time reference, su... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310062 | Dual antenna diversity method to detect GPS signal tampering A method of detecting GPS signal tampering uses two GPS receivers. A first receiver measures carrier phases of two or more satellite signals and of a tampered signal. A second receiver measures carrier phases of the two or more satellite signals and the tampered sig... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310578 | Fast access, low memory, pair catalog A system (18) includes: a) A vehicle (12) includes an attitude or angular velocity control system (38), a plurality of star trackers or star sensors (22) each having a field of view (28); b) a memory (30) having a star catal... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310043 | System for automatically moving access barriers and methods for adjusting system sensitivity An operator system and related methods for automatically controlling access barriers including a controller associated with at least one access barrier and a transceiver associated with the controller for transmitting and receiving operational signals. The system al... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305211 | Satellite communications system using multiple earth stations A satellite communications system uses multiple ground stations and one or more satellites for communicating between mobile subscribers and a land-based communications network, such as the PSTN or the Internet. Multiple ground stations geographically dispersed minim... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301992 | Multipath processing for GPS receivers A GPS receiver system determines the presence of trackable signals at code delays less than the prompt delay being tracked for a particular, signal and changes the prompt delay to correspond to the smallest code delay having a trackable signal. Trackable signals at ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302317 | System and method to enhance attitude estimation for transfer orbit maneuver A system and method to enhance attitude estimation for transfer orbit maneuvers of a spinning satellite includes a transfer orbit earth sensor that can receive and convert an infrared radiance to an analog signal. The analog signal is provided to a hardware chord pr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295635 | Method of signal processing in the presence of interference The invention relates to methods of processing signals subjected to interference. It consists, when this signal is formed of a first wideband channel and of a second narrowband channel modulating one and the same carrier in which these signals are cut off for the du... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295633 | Triple multiplexing spread spectrum receiver A GPS car navigation system derives GPS position update information from motion of the car along the actual track. Turns along the track are detected when they actually occur and are compared with the predicted turns so that the time and position at the actual turn ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289014 | System for automatically moving access barriers and methods for using the same An operator system and related methods for automatically controlling access barriers including a controller associated with at least one access barrier and a transceiver associated with the controller for transmitting and receiving operational signals. The system al... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286085 | Precision geolocation system and method using a long baseline interferometer antenna system A long baseline interferometer antenna system and method for determining the location of an emitter. The long baseline interferometer antenna system comprises a first antenna, a second antenna, an inertial navigation system, an antenna baseline measurement system, a... | 10/23/2007 |
