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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120105281 | Method and Apparatus for Distribution of Satellite Navigation Data A method and apparatus for distributing satellite navigation data is described. In one example, satellite signals are processed at each of a plurality of reference stations to receive a respective plurality of satellite navigation data streams. Packets are formed in res... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20110291888 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RF INTERFERENCE MITIGATION USING A BLANKING WATCHGUARD A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) enabled mobile device may be operable to assert one of autoblank signals when RF interference is detected in received GNSS signals for one of consecutive first time windows. The asserted autoblank signals are monitored by the ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110260913 | Method for Adjusting a Measurement Cycle in a Satellite Positioning System Signal Receiver A method for adjusting a measurement cycle in a satellite signal receiver is described. The method includes adjusting a measurement cycle in a satellite signal receiver by computing a position state comprising at least one of a velocity and a heading of the satellite si... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110237185 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION FOR A RF COMMUNICATION DEVICE BASED ON ITS PROXIMITY TO A MOBILE DEVICE A mobile device may be operable to determine, based on a known location of the mobile device, a location for a RF communication device that communicates with the mobile device, whenever the mobile device is within proximate range of the RF communication device. The dete... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110227788 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND PROPAGATING LOCATION INFORMATION BY A MOBILE DEVICE USING SENSORY DATA A mobile device may determine its initial absolute location; may track using a plurality of sensors, its movements relative to the initial absolute location; and may generate location related data for a location based on that tracking. Tracking movement of the mobile de... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110223931 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING LOCATION AND/OR RANGE BASED ON TRANSMIT POWER A transmitting communication device may iteratively adjust its transmit power, and may estimate, based on iterative transmit power adjustment, relative location of a receiving communication device. The transmit power may be initialized to a maximum value, and the transm... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110222471 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED TRANSFER OF LOCATION DATABASE INFORMATION A servicing communication device may receive a subset of a location reference database that is maintained by a plurality of location servers, and may provide location related data to a mobile device that is communicatively coupled to the servicing communication device b... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110212732 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON A PLURALITY OF LOCATION SAMPLES A mobile device may be operable to receive three or more location samples for the mobile device from each of three or more resources. Two or more valid location samples may be selected based on an accuracy indicator associated with each of the received location samples.... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110212735 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEAMLESS CONSUMMATION OF AN ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION BASED ON LOCATION RELATED DATA A mobile device may determine its location, receive transaction related information, and initiate, based on its determined location and/or the transaction related information, a transaction at the current location. The transaction related information may be received fro... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110210886 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING A GNSS RECEIVER IN A HOT-STATE A GNSS receiver in a wake up state during a standby mode may acquire ephemeris from received GNSS signals such as GPS signals and/or GLONASS signals. When subsequently transitioning from the standby mode to a normal mode operating at a high frequency clock, the acquired... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205110 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROPAGATING GNSS ASSISTANCE DATA AMONG COMMUNICATION DEVICES IN A GNSS GROUP A communication device within a GNSS group propagates GNSS assistance data to one or more other communication devices in the GNSS group utilizing direct device-to-device connections. The GNSS assistance data comprises ephemeris received from one or more GNSS satellites ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110207471 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING LOCATION WITHIN A BUILDING BASED ON HISTORICAL LOCATION INFORMATION A mobile device may be operable to receive historical location trail information of a building. A location of the mobile device within the building may be determined by placing, moving or snapping a reference location of the mobile device onto a trail according to the r... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110207472 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CELLULAR CLOCK-ASSISTED WIRELESS ACCESS POINT LOCATING A wireless access point comprising a cellular receiver receives radio signals from a cellular base station. A cellular reference clock, synchronized to the cellular base station, is detected from the received radio signals. The detected cellular reference clock is utili... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199262 | ESTIMATING FREQUENCY OF A GNSS ENABLED DEVICE BASED ON TIME STAMPS A GNSS enabled device that is communicatively coupled to a network, receives time stamps via the network. The time stamps are generated based on reference clock signals within the network. GNSS receiver clock signal frequency may be adjusted based on the time stamps. Wh... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199916 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF A WIRELESS ACCESS POINT USING SINGLE DEVICE BASED POWER MEASUREMENTS A mobile device measures power from different locations for an encountered wireless access point, a WiFi or Bluetooth access point, and communicates the power measurements to a remote location. The remote location server collects power measurements for the encountered w... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199917 | COLLABORATIVE SHARING OF LOCATION INFORMATION AMONG DEVICES IN A NETWORK A wireless communication device determines its location and communicates the location to other local devices utilizing a nonstandard, standard and/or proprietary protocol in combination with another protocol such as a Bluetooth, RFID, IEEE 802.11 and/or a cellular phone... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200023 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A POSITION FIX INDOORS Whenever a mobile device in a building is within proximity of a RF communication device, the mobile device may be operable to receive location information transmitted, for example by broadcasting it, from a RF communication device. The transmitted location information c... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200024 | PROVIDING GNSS ASSISTANCE DATA VIA A WIRELESS LAN ACCESS POINT A wireless mobile device, either a WLAN enabled mobile device or a Bluetooth enable device, which is within range of a WLAN access point, is operable to receive GNSS assistance data broadcasted from the WLAN access point. The GNSS assistance data are acquired by the WLA... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201305 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENSURING USER AND/OR DEVICE ANONYMITY FOR LOCATION BASED SERVICES (LBS) A mobile device may communicate with a location server during location based services (LBS) operations using a secure identifier. The secure identifier abstracts identification information of the mobile device and/or identification information of a user of the mobile de... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202460 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHORIZING TRANSACTIONS BASED ON RELATIVE LOCATION OF DEVICES Aspects of a method and system for authorizing transactions based on relative location of devices are provided. In this regard, data relating to a location of a first communication device and data relating to a location of a second communication device may be received, ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201335 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A LOCATION-BASED VERTICAL HANDOFF OVER HETEROGENEOUS MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS A multi-radio mobile device receives data transmissions for a wireless communication session from a current serving access network in a coupled heterogeneous network system comprising a plurality of different access networks. The multi-radio mobile device initiates a ha... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201336 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING USER-LEVEL QoS DURING A LOCATION-BASED HANDOFF OVER HETEROGENEOUS MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS A multi-radio mobile device receives data transmission of a session from a serving access network in a heterogeneous network system comprising difference access networks. A handoff is performed based on the received data transmissions. User-level QoS for the wireless co... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201347 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION-BASED DYNAMIC RADIO SELECTION A multi-radio mobile device comprises a plurality of different radios. When a location update occurs, the multi-radio mobile device, at a specific location, acquires location-based radio information from a remote location server. The multi-radio mobile device selects a ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201348 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING UPLOADING OF LOCATION DATA FOR LOCATION BASED SERVICES A mobile device may be operable to collect location data for a RF node and cache the collected location data in the mobile device. Resources that may be utilized for improving the uploading of the cached location data to a location server may be determined by the mobile... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202416 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHORIZING TRANSACTIONS BASED ON DEVICE LOCATION Aspects of a method and system for authorizing network transactions based on device location are provided. In this regard, a request may be received to approve a transaction that was initiated from a first communication device and comprises a need to access an account. ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199964 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION OF AN ACCESS POINT BASED ON ASSOCIATION OF THE ACCESS POINT WITH A COMMUNICATION DEVICE HAVING A KNOWN LOCATION A communication device associated with a wireless access point, namely, a WiFi access point or a Bluetooth access point for example, communicates its location information to the wireless access point. The wireless access point determines its own location utilizing the c... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201358 | DETERMINING APPLICATION USAGE RELATIVE TO A PARTICULAR LOCATION A mobile device collects information about application usage and associates collected application information with a location of the mobile device and/or a time that the application is accessed. The application is stored on the mobile device or on an external device and... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202461 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHORIZING NETWORK TRANSACTIONS BASED ON RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) CHARACTERIZATION OF A DEVICE'S LOCATION Aspects of a method and system for authorizing network transactions based on radio frequency (RF) characterization of a device's location are provided. In this regard, whether to approve a communication device to perform a network transaction may be determined based on ... | 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 |
| 20110199261 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STABILIZING A GNSS CLOCK BY REDUCING INTERFERENCE Methods and systems for stabilizing a GNSS clock by reducing interference are disclosed and may include stabilizing a frequency of a temperature compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) on a chip in a GNSS device. A clock signal may be generated for the device by temporari... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199259 | SENSOR-ASSISTED LOCATION-AWARE MOBILE DEVICE A GNSS enabled mobile device moves from a first area where GNSS signal quality and/or level is above a threshold to a second area where GNSS signal quality and/or level is below the threshold. The GNSS enabled mobile device in the second area determines its own location... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199260 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION OF A CELLULAR BASE STATION UTILIZING MOBILE GNSS VELOCITY AND CORRESPONDING CELLULAR DOPPLER A GNSS enabled mobile device concurrently receives GNSS signals from GNSS satellites and transmissions from a cellular base station. GNSS-based velocities and GNSS locations are determined for the GNSS enabled mobile device utilizing the received GNSS signals. A cellula... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201360 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PHYSICAL MAP-ASSISTED WIRELESS ACCESS POINT LOCATING A mobile device receives a server-assisted location for a wireless access point, either a WiFi access point or a Bluetooth access point, from a remote location server comprising a reference database. The received server-assisted location is refined using a physical map ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110201357 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REFINING A LOCATION OF A BASE STATION AND/OR A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON SIGNAL STRENGTH MEASUREMENTS AND CORRESPONDING TRANSMITTER AND/OR RECEIVER ANTENNA PATTERNS A mobile device receives data transmissions, via a coupled receiver antenna array, from a transmitter antenna array of a serving base station. The mobile device determines relative distances, with respect to the serving base station, associated with signal strength meas... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199185 | BUILDING A LOCATION BASED SERVICE REFERENCE DATABASE BASED ON ENCOUNTERED RFID TAGS A RFID reader of a RFID enabled mobile device receives RFID information from a RFID tag attached to an object. In instances where the RFID enabled mobile device is GNSS enabled, a GNSS position of the RFID enabled mobile device is determined to associate, for example, b... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110193743 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING REDUCED FUNCTIONALITY PROCESSING CHANNELS IN A GNSS RECEIVER A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver comprising one or more regular channel circuits and one or more sniff channel circuits may be operable, utilizing the sniff channel circuits, to monitor power levels of currently visible GNSS satellites which are not ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110169695 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING NETWORK ELEMENTS IN A SATELLITE NAVIGATION DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Method and apparatus for managing a network element in a satellite navigation data distribution system is described. In one example, a network element includes a processor for processing satellite navigation data. For example, a network element may be a reference statio... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110148702 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POLAR QUANTIZATION FOR GNSS DATA A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver may be operable to quantize two-dimensional GNSS sample data with an in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) pair to two-dimensional quantized data with a magnitude and angle pair using the polar quantization, for example, an... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110150047 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT DSSS FFT PROCESSING EMPLOYING PRIME FACTOR DECOMPOSITION A direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) receiver may be operable to process signal samples in frequency domain utilizing a prime factor fast Fourier transform (FFT) circuit and a pseudorandom noise (PRN) code. The DSSS receiver may be operable to transform the signal s... | 06/23/2011 |
