Satellite Radio Beacon Positioning System Transmitting Time-stamped Messages; E.g. Gps [global Positioning System], Glonass [global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System] Or Galileo (ipc) Patents (Class 342/357.39)
  • Patent number: 7961717
    Abstract: A method and system for precise position determination of general Internet Protocol (IP) network-connected devices. A method enables use of remote intelligence located at strategic network points to distribute relevant assistance data to IP devices with embedded receivers. Assistance is tailored to provide physical timing, frequency and real time signal status data using general broad band communication protocols. Relevant assistance data enables several complementary forms of signal processing gain critical to acquire and measure weakened or distorted in-building Global Navigation Satellite Services (GNSS) signals and to ultimately extract corresponding pseudo-range time components. A method to assemble sets of GNSS measurements that are observed over long periods of time while using standard satellite navigation methods, and once compiled, convert using standard methods each pseudo-range into usable path distances used to calculate a precise geographic position to a known degree of accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: iPosi, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Lee, Richard Keegan
  • Patent number: 7948426
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting and locating RF weapons being used against aircraft. Large geographic regions may be defended by equipping a constellation of high-altitude airborne platforms with RF detectors, GPS receivers and a communications unit. The communications unit downlinks data indicating an RF weapon pulse and associated time and location data. From this data, a ground station performs a time difference of arrival (TDOA) location fix of the RF weapon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
    Inventors: Alfred E. Pevler, Donald R. Van Rheeden, Le Moey Wiebush, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7924104
    Abstract: A method for compensating a clock bias in a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver includes deriving at least one clock drift value comprising a first clock drift value corresponding to a first time point, and calculating the clock bias according to the at least one clock drift value and at least one interval within the time period between the first time point and a specific time point after the first time point. An apparatus for compensating a clock bias in a GNSS receiver is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Kung-Shuan Huang, Yu-Chi Yeh
  • Patent number: 7916771
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for acquiring and tracking a BOC signal in a satellite navigation receiver includes a synthesized acquisition test function or a discriminator for code delay provided by combining a BOC autocorrelation function and a BOC/PRN cross-correlation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignees: UTI Limited Partnership, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
    Inventors: Olivier Julien, Christophe Macabiau, M. Elizabeth Cannon, Gerard Lachapelle
  • Publication number: 20100265136
    Abstract: A method for transmitting additional information in a satellite navigation system includes providing a navigation message including a continuous data stream having a prescribed bit rate and structuring the navigation message in a plurality of pages generated according to a prescribed page definition so as to transmit information, wherein each of the plurality of pages includes a checksum calculated as a function of information contained in the page. The method further includes generating at least one new page containing the additional information so as to form a changed, navigation message according to a further page definition that differs from the prescribed page definition such that the checksum calculated as a function of information contained on the page generated according to the prescribed page definition is false; and transmitting the at least one new page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: ASTRIUM GMBH
    Inventor: Hans L. Trautenberg