Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7889123 | Global positioning system (GPS) assembly test using wireless transmission A GPS assembly test system and method for a wireless communications device, such as a mobile telephone, having an integrated GPS receiver. The GPS assembly test can be performed without the requirement of external testing equipment. The GPS assembly test activates t... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7760137 | Portable position determining device A position determining device is disclosed comprising a satellite navigation receiver for automatically providing computed position information, when the device has changed its position relative to a predetermined location, to a paging transmitter for transmission t... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7750845 | Positioning device and a method of operating thereof A positioning unit and telecommunications unit wherein a reference time value from is requested from a telecommunications network to start the positioning receiver. A strobe is scheduled to be transmitted from the telecommunications unit to the positioning receiver ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7746273 | Internet protocol based 911 system The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for initiating and handling an emergency IP request using an IP enabled device having GPS capability. The IP enabled device is monitored for one or more emergency criteria. If the emergency criteria are s... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7724187 | Intelligent utilization of resources in mobile devices A programmable intelligent activation module to intelligently allow access to GPS resources is provided. In accordance with pre-programmed settings, an intelligent activation module will control the frequency by which a GPS module is allowed to access a GPS or GSM n... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724186 | Enhanced aiding in GPS systems An Aided Location Communication System (“ALCS”) is described. The ALCS may include a geolocation server including a non-GPS position server, at least one server aiding database, server position-determination module, and a server fusion module. The ALCS may also ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7705776 | Mobile wireless communications device comprising a satellite positioning system antenna and electrically conductive director element therefor A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, at least one wireless transceiver carried by the portable housing, and a satellite positioning signal receiver carried by the portable housing. An antenna may also be carried by the portable hou... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7696924 | Radioterminals and associated operating methods that transmit position information responsive to change/rate of change of position A radioterminal includes a wireless communications transmitter, a wireless communications receiver and a GPS receiver. A controller is configured to enable the GPS receiver when the wireless communications receiver is receiving wireless communications, and to disabl... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7667643 | Miniaturized satellite transceiver Described is a miniaturized satellite transceiver for communicating with a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite and a communications satellite. The miniaturized satellite transceiver includes an integrated GPS receiver configured to receive communications from ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7612712 | Distributed orbit modeling and propagation method for a predicted and real-time assisted GPS system A distributed orbit and propagation method for use in a predicted GPS or GNSS system, which includes a predicted GPS server (PGPS Server), a source of high accuracy orbit predictions (Orbit Server), a global reference network (GRN Server) providing real-time GPS or ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7605753 | Wireless communication device and method for reducing interference in a receiver Embodiments of a wireless communication device and a method for reducing in-band interference in a positioning system receiver are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, an adaptive filter may be used to meas... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7598908 | Method and apparatus for reducing interference in a wireless device A method of reducing interference in a GPS-equipped wireless device having a transmitter, the method comprising: acquiring a GPS signal containing GPS data; decoding the GPS data; determining whether the GPS data is valid; when the GPS data is not valid due to the i... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7598909 | Keeping accurate time for a hybrid GPS receiver and mobile phone when powered off A hybrid navigation satellite receiver and mobile telephone uses only two crystal oscillators. One that operates a master clock around 27-MHz and that consumes milliwatts of power. The other oscillator consumes only microwatts of power and operates continuously on b... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7592953 | Mobile satellite communications Provided is a mobile satellite transceiver system for communicating with a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite and a communications satellite. In on implementation, the mobile satellite transceiver system includes a GPS receiver configured to receive communica... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7589670 | Device and method for position information A device for position information, the device comprising: a satellite position measuring device with an energy-consuming measuring mode in which the measuring device supplies the current position (pos) of the device to an output, and an energy-saving idle mode; and ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7564405 | Object locator There is disclosed an object locator system for obtaining information about the location of an individual, animal or moveable object, having a lightweight, attached object locator, that is present in a region served by a two-way paging system and a global positionin... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7551131 | Wireless communication device and associated method including control of positioning-system receiver and shared oscillator The wireless communication device includes a wireless communication transceiver to generate an oscillator control signal and an activation signal, a positioning-system receiver (e.g. a GPS receiver) to process received positioning signals, and a shared oscillator (e... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7515102 | GPS.WIFI terminal A terminal, in particular a mobile terminal, comprises means for processing a positioning signal coming from a satellite positioning system, means for computing direct and inverse Fourier transforms, wireless communication means using OFDM modulation, and priority m... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7463188 | Wireless CPU GPS application A wireless handheld GPS-enabled device and supporting system comprises a wireless CPU that functions as a host processor, a GPS chipset to provide GPS measurements, and a GPS application hosted by the wireless CPU. Other applications are also hosted by the wireless ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7456784 | Combined global positioning system receiver and radio A portable GPS/radio unit communicates over a wireless radio network with at least one other unit which is transmitting radio signals over the network indicative of that unit's location. The GPS/radio unit comprises a GPS receiver for receiving satellite signals fro... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453396 | Radioterminals and associated operating methods that alternate transmission of wireless communications and processing of global positioning system signals A radioterminal includes a wireless communications transmitter, a wireless communications receiver and a GPS receiver. A controller is configured to enable the GPS receiver when the wireless communications receiver is receiving wireless communications, and to disabl... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453397 | System controllable by an external microcontroller via an interface A system controllable by an external microcontroller via an interface external to the system includes a radio module, and a GPS receiver. The radio module is adapted to 1) pass messages received via the interface to the GPS receiver via an internal interface, and 2)... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450062 | Keeping accurate time for a hybrid GPS receiver and mobile phone when powered off A hybrid navigation satellite receiver and mobile telephone uses only two crystal oscillators. One that operates a master clock around 27-MHz and that consumes milliwatts of power. The other oscillator consumes only microwatts of power and operates continuously on b... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7437161 | Method of fast data transmission of mobile stations via the same base station In the method of packet transmission, data packet fragments received from a first mobile station are sent to a second mobile station without assembling and re-fragmenting the received data packet fragments if the first and second mobile stations are in a same cell. | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432923 | Position measuring method and mobile communication terminal When a user of a mobile communication terminal makes a request for a position-measuring of a current location, at step S101, a position-measuring method determining section checks a position-measuring method specified. When the method specified is a “cell I... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424300 | Method for tracking location of a mobile unit Location of a mobile unit is determined by a combined probability, derived from a first probability for possible locations based on a current sample of radio signal characteristics and a second probability that a unit has moved from a prior location or probable loca... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403155 | Method for the accelerated acquisition of satellite signals The present invention proposes to use optimally a location method based on a WIFI type short-range telecommunication system and a satellite location system. The short-range telecommunication system is used to locate the terminal accurately within the building in whi... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400974 | Method and apparatus for locating position of a GPS device A method and apparatus for locating position of a GPS device is described. In one example, a method for provisioning a mobile device with a model for determining a position of the mobile device in at least one geographic area is provided. The method includes obtaini... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7382315 | System for and method of improving beyond line-of-sight transmissions and receptions A radio system can be configured as a beyond line-of-sight system and includes a number of antennas, a number of phase adjusters and a transmitter/receiver unit. Each of the phase adjusters can be associated with a respective antenna of the antennas. The antennas ca... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379729 | Locator system A locator system is disclosed. An e911-enabled wireless network including a switching center is configured receive a request to generate location information regarding a remote mobile station, and send said location information to a subscriber only after obtaining c... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373085 | Hybrid satellite and fiber communications system A communication system employing optical fibers and a high data rate satellite is utilized to provide high-speed Internet access to various geographic regions. In one aspect, a first teleport station is located geographically separated from a first user. The first t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373175 | Method and apparatus for timebase synchronization for use with cellular base stations A server-assisted approach for synchronizing timebases (120 and 140) in a client-server system utilizes global positioning system (GPS) receivers (136 and 110) at both the client and server. In a typical implementation, the GPS receiver (... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373243 | Method and system for providing traffic information A method, system, and software for automatically providing traffic information to a user, includes tracking and storing travel pattern data of the user, the travel pattern data including a time at which a travel occurs. The travel pattern data is analyzed to predict... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373152 | Radio signal strength mapping through a telematics system The invention provides a method of and system for determining a radio-frequency signal strength at a mobile vehicle. A signal strength measurement request is received from a call center for a selected radio frequency, a signal strength of the selected radio frequenc... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370085 | Method, system, and program for providing user location information with a personal information management program Provided is a method, system, program, and data structures for providing user location information with a personal information manager program. Position coordinates of a wireless device associated with a user are generated, along with time information indicating a t... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7369599 | Method and apparatus for reducing code phase search space A GPS communication system including a server and a client, each including a GPS receiver, for reducing the code phase search space of the GPS receiver of the client. The communication system includes a transmitter for transmitting timing information from the server... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365680 | Location services system that reduces auto-correlation or cross-correlation in weak signals The present invention discloses methods, apparatuses, and systems for eliminating auto- and cross-correlation in weak signal CDMA systems, such as GPS systems. The invention uses parallel data paths that allow standard correlation of signals in parallel with verific... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366919 | Use of geo-location data for spam detection Computer implemented methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for detecting suspected spam in e-mail (24) originating from a sending computer (21). A method embodiment comprises the steps of determining (11) the actual IP address (23 | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366522 | Method and system for location tracking Techniques for location tracking, location utilization, and dissemination and management of location information are disclosed. As a location monitoring system, one embodiment includes at least a plurality of mobile computing devices supported by a wireless network,... | 04/29/2008 |
