Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
342357660 | Creating, predicting or correcting ephemeris or almanac data within the receiver (IPC) | 30 |
20100283681 | Autonomous projection of global navigation satellite orbits - In a method of autonomous orbit projection performed within a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, distinct broadcast orbits are received over time from a GNSS satellite during operation of the GNSS receiver. A plurality of the distinct broadcast orbits are stored within the GNSS receiver. Within the GNSS receiver, a plurality of the stored broadcast orbits are converted into a time series of range data for the GNSS satellite. A projected orbit for the GNSS satellite is determined by utilizing the time series of range data as an input to an orbit projector of the GNSS receiver. | 11-11-2010 |
20100289697 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING GNSS SATELLITE TRAJECTORY EXTENSION DATA IN MOBILE APPARATUS - A method and device for predicting satellite trajectory extension data in a mobile apparatus. The device in accordance with the present invention comprises an I/O interface and a microprocessor. The input/output (I/O) interface is used for obtaining at least one satellite navigation message for at least one satellite. The microprocessor is used for determining a propagating condition according to the satellite navigation message, estimating at least one parameter of a satellite trajectory prediction model according to the propagating condition, and propagating at least one set of satellite trajectory extension data by using the satellite trajectory prediction model. | 11-18-2010 |
20100321236 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A GNSS RECEIVER WITH SELF-ASSISTED EPHEMERIS EXTENSIONS - A GNSS enabled mobile device receives GNSS signals from visible GNSS satellites. Broadcast ephemeris is extracted from the received GNSS signals for generating ephemeris extension (future ephemeris) in the next several days for each of the visible GNSS satellites. The GNSS enabled mobile device uses the generated future ephemeris to determine a position fix even without fresh broadcast ephemeris completely received from the visible GNSS satellites. The generation of future ephemeris is scheduled according to the age of available ephemeris extensions and/or the time of visibility. Available ephemeris such as extracted broadcast ephemeris are integrated into an orbit model using the multi-step numerical integration methods and propagated to generate future ephemeris. The generated future ephemeris is reformatted into a desired orbit model and/or format of the GNSS enabled mobile device. A curve fitting polynomial of generated future ephemeris is stored instead of actual generated future ephemeris to conserve storage space. | 12-23-2010 |
20110012785 | LOCATING SATELLITES - A system and method of locating the position of a satellite or a user using a satellite positioning system. The system and method includes receiving, at a terminal, satellite positioning data for at least one specified time period over a communications channel. In addition, the system includes storing, at the terminal, the satellite positioning data for the at least one specified time period. Responsive to an event at a later time, the system generally calculates, at the terminal, the satellite position at the later time based only on the satellite positioning data for the at least one specified time period. | 01-20-2011 |
20110032147 | PROVIDING EPHEMERIS DATA AND CLOCK CORRECTIONS TO A SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEM RECEIVER - A device can access scaled values and scaling factors, which are used to convert the scaled values into coefficients and residuals. The coefficients and residuals can in turn be used with time-dependent functions to reconstruct predicted ephemeris data, including clock correction data, for satellite navigation system satellites. Ephemeris data that is broadcast from any of the satellites can be used to update the calculated ephemeris data. | 02-10-2011 |
20110037651 | Method of Amending Navigation Data of a Global Navigation System - For amending navigation data of a global navigation system, navigation signals are received from a space vehicle, and a predicted clock phase offset of the clock signal sent from the space vehicle is estimated and stored in a memory. The clock phase offset difference between the current estimated clock phase offset and a previously estimated clock phase offset times (T | 02-17-2011 |
20110043404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING TRANSFORMATION INFORMATION PARAMETERS USED IN GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM - A method for updating a set of transformation information parameters used in a global navigation satellite system includes: obtaining at least one satellite navigation information for a satellite; and updating the set of transformation information parameters according to the obtained satellite navigation information. The method can extend the life time of the set of transformation information parameters, and used to generate better predictions of the satellite trajectory therefore the TTFF can be reduced while the positioning accuracy can also be improved. | 02-24-2011 |
20110133985 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING INTEGRITY OF LONG-TERM ORBITS IN A REMOTE RECEIVER - A method and apparatus for maintaining integrity of long-term-orbit information used by a Global-Navigation-Satellite-System or other positioning receiver is described. The method comprises obtaining a predicted pseudorange from a first set of long-term-orbit information possessed by a positioning receiver; obtaining, at the positioning receiver from at least one satellite, a measured pseudorange; determining validity of the predicted pseudorange as a function of the predicted pseudorange and the measured pseudorange; and excluding from the long-term-orbit information at least a portion thereof when the validity of the predicted pseudorange is deemed invalid. Optionally, the method may comprise updating or otherwise supplementing the long-term-orbit information with other orbit information if the validity of the predicted pseudorange is deemed invalid. | 06-09-2011 |
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 station, a hub, or a server in the satellite navigation data distribution system. The network element includes a memory for maintaining status variables associated with the processing of the satellite navigation data. The status variables may relate to the integrity of the satellite navigation data. The network element further includes a management agent for monitoring states of the status variables and communicating with a network management system to exchange information related to the states of the status variables. In one example, the management agent is configured to communicate using a simple network management protocol (SNMP). | 07-14-2011 |
20110169696 | PORTABLE ANTENNA POSITIONER APPARATUS AND METHOD - A low power, lightweight, collapsible and rugged antenna positioner for use in communicating with geostationary, geosynchronous and low earth orbit satellite. By collapsing, invention may be easily carried or shipped in a compact container. May be used in remote locations with simple or automated setup and orientation. Azimuth is adjusted by rotating an antenna in relation to a positioner base and elevation is adjusted by rotating an elevation motor coupled with the antenna. Manual orientation of antenna for linear polarized satellites yields lower weight and power usage. Updates ephemeris or TLE data via satellite. Algorithms used for search including Clarke Belt fallback, transponder/beacon searching switch, azimuth priority searching and tracking including uneven re-peak scheduling yield lower power usage. Orientation aid via user interface allows for smaller azimuth motor, simplifies wiring and lowers weight. Tilt compensation, bump detection and failure contingency provide robustness. | 07-14-2011 |
20110187596 | RECEIVERS, CIRCUITS, AND METHODS TO IMPROVE GNSS TIME-TO-FIX AND OTHER PERFORMANCES - An electronic circuit ( | 08-04-2011 |
20110254733 | Method of Keeping a GPS Receiver in a State That Enables Rapid Signal Acquisition - Aspects of a method and system for keeping a device for satellite navigation in a state that enables rapid signal acquisition are provided. The device may acquire broadcast ephemeris from one or more satellite signals during a data refresh operation. The satellite signals may comprise a GPS signal, a GLONASS signal, a GALILEO signal, or a combination thereof. The device may compute extended or future ephemeris from the acquired broadcast ephemeris during the data refresh operation. In a positioning operation that is subsequent to the data refresh operation, the device may determine satellite navigation information from the computed extended ephemeris. In some instances, a time associated with a schedule of the data refresh operation may be adjusted based on the computed extended ephemeris. The extended ephemeris may be computed by integrating current and/or historic broadcast ephemeris into an orbit model. | 10-20-2011 |
20110267230 | 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 GNSS assistance data to the PGPS Server, a predicted GPS client (PGPS Client) running on a device equipped with a GPS or AGPS chipset. In response to requests from the PGPS Client, the PGPS Server produces and disseminates an initial seed dataset consisting of current satellite orbit state vectors and orbit propagation model coefficients. This seed dataset enables the PGPS Client to locally predict and propagate satellite orbits to a desired future time. This predictive assistance in turn helps accelerate Time To First Fix (TTFF), optimize position solution calculations and improve the sensitivity of the GPS chip present on, or coupled with, the device. In contrast with other conventional predicted GPS systems that forward large volumes of predicted orbits, synthetic ephemeris or synthetic almanac data, this method optimally reduces data transfer requirements to the client, and enables the client to locally synthesize its own predicted assistance data as needed. This method also supports seamless notification of real-time satellite integrity events and seamless integration of predicted assistance data with industry standard real-time assistance data. | 11-03-2011 |
20110279316 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING GNSS SATELLITE TRAJECTORY EXTENSION DATA IN MOBILE APPARATUS - A method and device for predicting satellite trajectory extension data in a mobile apparatus. The device in accordance with the present invention comprises an I/O interface and a microprocessor. The input/output (I/O) interface is used for obtaining at least one satellite navigation message for at least one satellite. The microprocessor is used for determining a satellite trajectory prediction model according to the satellite navigation message, and propagating at least one set of satellite trajectory extension data by using the satellite trajectory prediction model. | 11-17-2011 |
20120056782 | SATELLITE NAVIGATION RECEIVERS WITH SELF-PROVIDED FUTURE EPHEMERIS AND CLOCK PREDICTIONS - An improved extended ephemeris navigation receiver includes a fully autonomous satellite navigation receiver for receiving microwave transmissions from orbiting navigation system satellites, and able to demodulate navigation messages that include the ephemerides for those navigation system satellites. The improvements include a force model of the accelerations acting on a particular satellite vehicle, and are exclusive to the receiver. A single observation of the ephemeris for each SV is input and propagated days into the future by integrating each SV's orbital position with its corresponding force model. The fully autonomous satellite navigation receiver thereafter has available to it extended ephemeris predictions that can be used as substitutes when said navigation messages from the respective SV cannot otherwise be immediately obtained and demodulated. | 03-08-2012 |
20120075144 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING AUTONOMOUS TIME TO FIX OF A MULTI-STANDARD GNSS RECEIVER - A multi-standard GNSS receiver, handle different global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), determines with respect to a current time instant, the earliest broadcast timing based on corresponding satellite broadcast cycles for satellites in the different GNSSs. The multi-standard GNSS receiver acquires fresh broadcast ephemeris at the determined earliest broadcast timing to determine its own first position. A search order is determined based on the corresponding satellite broadcast cycles and the current time instant. The multi-standard GNSS receiver may selectively utilize appropriate satellite receivers such as the GPS receiver and the GLONASS receiver to search for satellite signals based on the determined search order. Channels for different GNSSs are scanned to identify transmitting satellites based on the corresponding satellite broadcast cycles for ephemeris downloading. The satellite search is prioritized by comparing the current time instant with the corresponding satellite broadcast cycles. | 03-29-2012 |
20120154217 | METHOD AND PROGRAM OF ACQUIRING NAVIGATION MESSAGE, GNSS RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A navigation message acquiring unit acquires bit data per word from a received bit data row. Here, if continuous words constituting one subframe is failed to be acquired in one frame, only a word that is accurately decoded is stored. Here, final two bits in a word immediately prior to the accurately decoded word is also stored along with the accurately decoded word. If all of the words constituting the one subframe are successfully acquired in a plurality of frames, a phase match between the words is performed by using the final two bits in the word stored along with each of the words and immediately prior to the accurately decoded word, a supplemented subframe is formed by joining each of the phased matched words, and the navigation message acquiring unit outputs the supplemented subframe with time-of-week information. | 06-21-2012 |
20120235861 | PROVIDING EPHEMERIS DATA AND CLOCK CORRECTIONS TO A SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEM RECEIVER - A device can access scaled values and scaling factors, which are used to convert the scaled values into coefficients and residuals. The coefficients and residuals can in turn be used with time-dependent functions to reconstruct predicted ephemeris data, including clock correction data, for satellite navigation system satellites. Ephemeris data that is broadcast from any of the satellites can be used to update the calculated ephemeris data. | 09-20-2012 |
20120256792 | EPHEMERIS EXTENSION METHOD FOR GNSS APPLICATIONS - Systems, methods and devices for improving the performance of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers are disclosed. In particular, the improvement of the ability to calculate a satellite position or a receiver position where a receiver has degraded ability to receive broadcast ephemeris data directly from a GNSS satellite is disclosed. Correction terms can be applied to an approximate long-term satellite position model such as the broadcast almanac. | 10-11-2012 |
20130099969 | Method and System for Extending the Usability Period of Long Term Orbit (LTO) - Aspects of a method and system for extending the usability period of long term orbit (LTO) are provided. A GPS enabled handset may receive LTO data from an AGPS server via a wireless communication network such as 3GPP or WiMAX. The GPS enabled handset may be enabled to receive broadcast GPS signals. The GPS enabled handset may extract navigation information from the received broadcast GPS signals to be used to adjust the received LTO data. The usability period of the received LTO data may be extended, accordingly. A clock model and a satellite health model associated with the extracted navigation information may be used to update or replace the clock model and/or the satellite health model of the received LTO data, respectively. A navigation solution for the GPS enabled handset may be determined more accurately based on the adjusted LTO data. | 04-25-2013 |
20130181866 | AUTONOMOUS ORBIT PROPAGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of predicting a location of a satellite is provided wherein the GPS device, based on previously received information about the position of a satellite, such as an ephemeris, generates a correction acceleration of the satellite that can be used to predict the position of the satellite outside of the time frame in which the previously received information was valid. The calculations can be performed entirely on the GPS device, and do not require assistance from a server. However, if assistance from a server is available to the GPS device, the assistance information can be used to increase the accuracy of the predicted position. | 07-18-2013 |
20130201059 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITION DETERMINATION WITH EXTENDED SPS ORBIT INFORMATION - A method and system for assisting mobile stations to locate a satellite use an efficient messaging format. A server computes a correction between coarse orbit data of a satellite and precise orbit data of the satellite. A coordinate system is chosen such that variation of the correction is substantially smooth over time. The server further approximates the correction with mathematical functions to reduce the number of bits necessary for transmission to a mobile station. The mobile station, upon receiving the coefficients, evaluates the mathematical functions using the coefficients and a time of applicability (e.g., the current time), converts the evaluated result to a standard coordinate system, and applies the conversion result to the coarse orbit data to obtain the precise orbit data. | 08-08-2013 |
20130285851 | Method and Apparatus for Maintaining Integrity of Long-Term Orbits in a Remote Receiver - A method and apparatus for maintaining integrity of long-term-orbit information used by a Global-Navigation-Satellite-System or other positioning receiver is described. The method comprises obtaining a predicted pseudorange from a first set of long-term-orbit information possessed by a positioning receiver; obtaining, at the positioning receiver from at least one satellite, a measured pseudorange; determining validity of the predicted pseudorange as a function of the predicted pseudorange and the measured pseudorange; and excluding from the long-term-orbit information at least a portion thereof when the validity of the predicted pseudorange is deemed invalid. Optionally, the method may comprise updating or otherwise supplementing the long-term-orbit information with other orbit information if the validity of the predicted pseudorange is deemed invalid. | 10-31-2013 |
20140002304 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING TERMINAL DEVICE | 01-02-2014 |
20140077991 | ENHANCED BROADCAST EPHEMERIS FOR HIGH ACCURACY ASSISTED GPS POSITIONING - Systems and methods for enhanced broadcast ephemeris are described. These systems and methods include the calculation and transmission of globally and locally optimized parameters of the broadcast ephemeris of a global navigation satellite system, such as ionosphere, clock, and orbital parameters of a GPS satellite and receiver. The locally-optimized satellite clock parameter compensates for geographically-specific signal errors that cannot be compensated by any global parameter of the broadcast ephemeris. The enhanced broadcast ephemeris error corrections are transmitted in the conventional RINEX format. | 03-20-2014 |
20140132447 | Offline Ephemeris Prediction - A method is disclosed for autonomously predicting satellite positions for the GPS and other satellite systems using the limited data processing capabilities of a typical embedded user device. The method involves a faster approach for performing initial element adjustments given previous position data. These adjusted initial elements are then used in the prediction calculations. The method may alternatively be used to obtain a fit to a precise orbit prediction of a satellite. A method of correcting a satellite orbit prediction is also disclosed. | 05-15-2014 |
20140285376 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL TIME SUBSET GEOMETRY SCREENING FOR VARYING SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS - A method for real time subset geometry screening comprises the steps of determining a list of satellites in view of a ground based augmentation system in a navigation satellite system for a subsequent time interval in the future, defining at least one set of subset geometries from the list of available satellites, calculating a respective first σ | 09-25-2014 |
20150070213 | LOCATION DETERMINATION IN MULTI-SYSTEM GNNS ENVIRONMENT USING CONVERSION OF DATA INTO A UNIFIED FORMAT - Accurate long term satellite models for satellites include satellites of different navigation systems. Such a model is derived for a non-GPS satellite that broadcasts native orbital model data specified as valid within a first time period. Initial position and velocity data are determined from the native orbital model data, and orbit integration is performed to determine an orbital arc in an earth-centered-earth-fixed frame over a second time period longer than the first time period. Initial estimates of GPS or GPS-like orbit parameters are determined for the non-GPS satellite, and the orbital arc and the initial estimates of the GPS or GPS-like orbit parameters are input to an orbit parameter solver that determines GPS or GPS-like parameters that fit the orbital arc and is used to determine final orbital model parameters in GPS or GPS-like format for the non-GPS satellite. | 03-12-2015 |
20150091753 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING THE ORBIT AND DETECTING THE TYPE OF A SATELLITE - A method of predicting the orbit of a satellite of a satellite positioning system, including: associating first and second types of satellites with first and second models of celestial mechanics forces, respectively; storing first ephemerides data of a satellite, associated to first time intervals and second ephemerides data associated to second time intervals. Further, the method comprises: calculating reference satellite positions based on the first ephemerides data; estimating first and second satellite positions in the first time intervals by using the second ephemerides data and the first and second forces models, respectively; determining first and second estimate errors by comparing the reference positions with the first and second positions, respectively; and detecting the type of satellite between the first and second types by an analysis of the first and second errors. | 04-02-2015 |
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