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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7821449 | Base station almanac assisted positioning A database provides base station almanac information pertaining to more than one network mode of communication. A wireless device accesses this database through a centralized server or network, or via the base station, base station controller or the like, with which... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7786931 | Determining mobile terminal positions using assistance data transmitted on request A mobile terminal (UE) comprises means (CR) for acquiring pseudo-random codes modulating signals received from positioning satellites (SN) in view belonging to a constellation (CS) and related to a reference time, and computation means (MC1-MC3) for de... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7764225 | Providing and using messages including time related information For enhancing the transmission of time related information, a message is received or assembled, which includes a reference time identifier. The received or assembled message is provided for transmission. At a receiving end, the reference time identifier and addition... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7750844 | Method of updating the clock bias between a GSM network BTS and GPS Satellites The present invention relates to a method of updating the clock bias between the common clock of the satellites of a radio navigation satellite system and the clock of a radio station of an asynchronous cellular radiotelephone system including a mobile device includ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7741996 | Positioning system, information supply device, terminal device, control method of information supply device, control program of information supply device, and computer readable recording medium recording control program of information supply device A positioning system, wherein the communication base station has: signal transmitting means for transmitting a base station timing signal and a communication signal; the terminal has: standard timing signal correcting means; total delay information generating means ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7737888 | Conveying orbit information via ambiguous position information In a method of conveying information regarding an orbit used at a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) base station to a GNSS receiver, a satellite position is determined for a particular time from an orbit of a GNSS satellite. An ambiguity value is extracted f... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7724185 | Providing and using messages comprising location information For enhancing the transmission of location information, a message is received or assembled, which includes location information and a reference time identifier. The reference time identifier identifies a reference time used in determining the location information ba... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7719465 | Method of acquiring initial GPS signal in broadcasting system and system using the method A system and method for acquiring an initial Global Positioning System (GPS) signal in a communication system including a terminal. The system includes an Assisted GPS (AGPS) server for generating Acquisition Assistance (AA) data distinguished according to an area b... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7719464 | System and method for providing aided GPS positioning via satellite digital radio system A system and method for providing aiding information to a satellite positioning system (“SPS”) receiver. A digital satellite radio system satellite receives aiding information communicated from a positioning system. The digital satellite radio system broadcasts ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7714779 | Method and apparatus for providing a global secure user plane location (SUPL) service A method and apparatus for providing assistance data for satellite positioning system receivers utilizing a secure user plane location (SUPL) service. In one embodiment, the assistance data is supplied by a global secure user plane location center that contains glob... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7701389 | 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 ti... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7696923 | System and method for determining geographic location of wireless computing devices System for enabling a wireless computing device to determine its position includes a server with a database of identification and positional information about wireless beacons and a wireless computing device arranged to wirelessly communicate using the Internet with... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7692579 | Methods and apparatus for actuated position determination in a wireless communication device Systems, methods, device, apparatus, and machine-readable medium are described that provide for actuation of position determination in a wireless device based on a user input to an input mechanism associated with a group communication, such as a push-to talk and/or ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7688260 | Method and apparatus for locating position of a mobile device in an assisted satellite positioning system Method and apparatus for locating position of a mobile device in an assisted satellite positioning system is described. In one example, satellite measurement data is obtained from a plurality of satellites at a mobile device. Position of the mobile device is compute... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7671793 | Positioning system, terminal apparatus, method of controlling terminal apparatus, program for controlling terminal apparatus and computer-readable storing medium for storing program for controlling terminal apparatus A communication base station has: a communication signal sending device for sending a communication signal including base station position information indicating a position of the communication base station and sending direction information indicating a sending dire... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7656350 | Method and apparatus for processing a satellite positioning system signal using a cellular acquisition signal Method and apparatus for processing satellite positioning system signals is described. In one example, assistance data is received at a mobile receiver from a first wireless network using a wireless transceiver. The first wireless network may be a non-synchronized c... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7646337 | Provision of location information A method of providing information regarding the location of a mobile user equipment (1) in a system wherein the location is determined based on information signalled from entities (10) of a positioning system and assistance data signalled from a statio... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7642958 | Satellite positioning system receivers and methods A mobile wireless communication device (200) including a wireless transceiver (210) communicably coupled to a processor (220), a satellite positioning system receiver (250), wherein the processor controls an operating mode of the satellit... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7633438 | Method of downloading ephemeris data based on user activity Ephemeris data is downloaded intelligently to a GPS-enabled wireless communications device based on user activity rather than at fixed predetermined intervals. Ephemeris data can be downloaded to enable both Aided GPS and Assisted GPS. The device can download epheme... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7626540 | System and method for providing location assistance data using a radio transmission The following discloses an improved system and method for accessing location assistance data, such as A-GPS assistance data, with a portable electronic device. In exemplary embodiments, location assistance data is generated by one or more reference radio transmitter... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7619559 | Method and system for all-in-view coherent GPS signal PRN codes acquisition and navigation solution determination A method and system for enabling more robust detection, positioning and time solution using GPS satellite ranging signals based on a simultaneous, all-in-view coherent PRN code signal processing scheme rather than acquisition of GPS signals one at a time. Additional... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7609203 | Method for ephemeris assisted global positioning The present invention generally relates to the transmission of GPS reference information, and more particularly, to transmission of GPS ephemeris information for mobile applications. A Telemetry word data is provided by and/or transmitted by a non-cellular, land bas... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7602335 | Geo-location using distributed composite GPS signals A wireless communication arrangement provides GPS coverage in areas where GPS satellites or macrocells are not directly detectable by a mobile station that is used for placing an emergency call. A detector detects a plurality of GPS satellites and provides a composi... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7598907 | System and method for WWAN/WLAN position estimation Apparatuses and methods for implementing the GPS positioning functionalities in devices that are capable of communicating using IP packets are disclosed. The aiding-information-enhanced GPS positioning (IAIE-GPSP) technique is decoupled from the specific requirement... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7576691 | Apparatus and process for a global navigation satellite system meeting safety of life performance requirements A satellite system for providing a navigation service includes a ground segment and a user segment. The ground segment provides information to enable the user segment to autonomously determine the user position performance. ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7551129 | Virtual real-time clock based on time information from multiple communication systems Method and apparatus to implement a “virtual” real-time clock at a terminal based on time information from multiple communication systems. At least one system (e.g., GPS) provides “absolute” time information for the virtual real-time clock, and at least one ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7551130 | Wind turbine with data receiver A wind turbine is provided, the wind turbine including a receiver adapted to receive a signal from a satellite-based navigation system and to determine at least one of a position information, a time information and a date information from said signal, and a communic... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548197 | GPS parasite system A non-GPS capable stationary device and method thereof is presented that permits the stationary device to receive location and time information from a mobile, GPS capable device using a non-GPS wireless protocol. This permits the stationary device to make use of the... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548198 | Method and system for providing preference based location aware content A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving data associated with retrieving location specific downloadable content for a Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled device via a network, retrieving location specific downloadable co... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7535416 | Dual platform location-relevant service A location-relevant service system provides location-relevant information to, or performs location-relevant service for, a first mobile unit based on the location of a second mobile unit. In one instance, the first mobile unit is fixed on a vehicle, while the second... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7528772 | Provision of location information A method of providing information regarding the location of a mobile user equipment (1) in a system wherein the location is determined based on information signalled from entities (10) of a positioning system and assistance data signalled from a statio... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7508341 | Method and arrangements for the transmission of pseudolite trajectories within navigation data of a satellite navigation system Method for the transmission of navigation data to user terminals of a satellite navigation system composed of navigation satellites and pseudolites. The method includes transmitting positional information for at least one of the pseudolites, as part of the navigatio... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7495609 | Mobile GPS aiding data solution A mobile GPS-aiding system uses a GPS reference receiver to collect GPS navigation messages, a GPS-aiding data network server to distribute over the Internet all ephemeris and almanac data gleaned from the navigation messages, a number of commercial broadcast radio ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495608 | Position determination using almanac for virtual base stations Mobile station position determination through a wireless communication network, such as a preliminary fix for use in satellite acquisition assistance, utilizes wireless network almanac data defined in a “virtual” manner, for example, with regard to “virtual ba... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7468694 | Communication system with assisted GPS and SBAS A communication system includes a reference station and a mobile station. The reference station is operable to: receive GPS signals; generate GPS assisting data from the received GPS signals; receive SBAS signals; obtain SBAS data from the received SBAS signals; com... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7446703 | Apparatus and method for receiving GPS signals in a mobile terminal An apparatus and method is provided for increasing GPS reception sensitivity in a mobile terminal having a mobile-based GPS positioning function. A GPS receiver in the mobile terminal generates SA data by using basic information about GPS satellites and system time.... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7446702 | Position data exchange systems, mobile communication devices, and methods A position data exchange system comprises first and second mobile communication devices. The first communication device retrieves current coordinates of itself from a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and transmits the coordinates through a wireless communica... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7426380 | Location derived presence information The number of messages required in networks where both location and presence services are deployed may be reduced, by retrieving presence data from messages otherwise intended to provide only location information. Thus, information determined in a location service s... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423585 | Navigation signal group delay calibration Navigation signal group delay calibration methods and systems are described. In an embodiment, a code signal generated in a navigation system platform can be measured where the code signal includes timing delay(s). An additional code signal generated in the navigati... | 09/09/2008 |
