Patents Represented by Attorney Andrea Mays
  • Patent number: 8279910
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods of implementing code space search of received signals are described herein. A code space search is implemented as a searcher that perform a subtask that is dynamically reconfigurable at each boundary of an initial integration time. Each particular subtask sets forth a programmable configuration of coherent integration hypothesis that are performed during the initial integration time. The searcher stores the results of the coherent integration hypothesis in a first portion of memory. A search accelerator operates on the initial integration results. The search accelerator can perform coherent integration of various frequency bins of different timing hypothesis, can generate energy values of the coherent integration results, and can generate a non-coherent energy summation. The energy values of the coherent integrations and non-coherent energy summations are stored in a second portion of memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Douglas Grover, Christopher Patrick, Kai Tang
  • Patent number: 8185128
    Abstract: Techniques for supporting location services with roaming are described. A mobile station interacts with a home mobile positioning center (H-MPC) in a home network for location services even when roaming. The mobile station communicates with a visited network for a data session and receives a request for its location. The mobile station sends first information (e.g., SID and NID) indicative of its current network location to the H-MPC. The H-MPC determines a serving mobile positioning center (S-MPC) in the visited network based on the first information. The S-MPC determines a serving position determining entity (S-PDE) in the visited network based on the first information. Depending on the selected positioning method, the H-MPC may receive an S-PDE address or a position estimate of the mobile station from the S-MPC and may forward this information to mobile station. The mobile station may communicate with the S-PDE for positioning using the S-PDE address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gaurav Lamba, Kirk Allan Burroughs, Ie-Hong Lin, Sanjeev Khushu, Zhimin Du, Yufei Wang