METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MEASURING FREQUENCY OF A BASESTATION IN CELLULAR NETWORKS USING MOBILE GPS RECEIVERS

    公开(公告)号:AU2003221935A1

    公开(公告)日:2003-11-03

    申请号:AU2003221935

    申请日:2003-04-14

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Inventor: KRASNER NORMAN F

    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for frequency synchronizing basestations in a cellular communication system. In one aspect of the invention, a method to predict a timing of transmission of a basestation in a cellular communication system includes: receiving a first time tag for a first timing marker in a first cellular signal transmitted from the basestation; receiving a second time tag of a second timing marker in a second cellular signal transmitted from the basestation; and computing a frequency related to the basestation using the first and second time tags. Each of the time tags are determined using at least one satellite positioning system signal received at a mobile station which receives the corresponding time marker.

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    公开(公告)号:BR9912895B1

    公开(公告)日:2014-09-23

    申请号:BR9912895

    申请日:1999-07-15

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Inventor: KRASNER NORMAN F

    Abstract: A method and an apparatus which acquire satellite positioning system (SPS) signals in an SPS receiver. Information on time of day, approximate receiver location, and satellite positions are used to reduce the time to search and acquire signals from one or more SPS satellites. In an example of a method of the invention, a first pseudorange to a first SPS satellite is determined, and an approximate location of the SPS receiver is determined. An estimated pseudorange for a second pseudorange to a second SPS satellite is determined from the approximate location and a satellite position of the second SPS satellite. The SPS receiver then searches for SPS signals from the second SPS satellite in a range determined by the estimated pseudorange. Typically, this method reduces the search time to initially acquire SPS signals from the second SPS satellite, and the estimated pseudorange is not based on a previously determined pseudorange for said second SPS satellite. In a particular example of the invention, the approximate location is determined from a cell based information source which correlates an identification of each of various wireless cell sites with an approximate location for objects within a cell of a wireless cell based communication system, such as a cellular (or cell based) telephone system. In other examples of the invention, relatively precise time of day information may be used with information indicating satellite positions and information indicating the approximate location to determine an estimated pseudorange for a first SPS satellite to be acquired.

    METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROLLING DISTRIBUTION OF LOCATION INFORMATION

    公开(公告)号:CA2463543C

    公开(公告)日:2013-05-28

    申请号:CA2463543

    申请日:2002-10-10

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: A mobile system, such as a wireless phone, communicates its location or other position information, such as pseudoranges, to a server system and optionally sends permission criteria defining which other mobile systems are allowed to access its location. In the case where the mobile system does not provide its location, the server determines the location using the other position information provided (e.g. pseudoranges for satellites in view of the mobile system). The server system sends the location to other mobile systems in accordance with the permission criteria, with or without a request from another mobile system for the location. If no permission criteria has been sent by the mobile system, the server system queries the mobile system for the permission criteria in response to a request for the location. If no permission criteria is sent by the mobile system, or if the permission criteria sent denies the request, the server system can, alternately, not reply to the request or reply with an error message. The permission criteria can include additional access limitations such as dates or times during which access is permitted or denied, and geographic areas in which access is permitted or denied.

    Methods and apparatuses for controlling distribution of location information

    公开(公告)号:AU2002353800B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-12-11

    申请号:AU2002353800

    申请日:2002-10-10

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: A mobile system, such as a wireless phone, communicates its location or other position information, such as pseudoranges, to a server system and optionally sends permission criteria defining which other mobile systems are allowed to access its location. In the case where the mobile system does not provide its location, the server determines the location using the other position information provided (e.g. pseudoranges for satellites in view of the mobile system). The server system sends the location to other mobile systems in accordance with the permission criteria, with or without a request from another mobile system for the location. If no permission criteria has been sent by the mobile system, the server system queries the mobile system for the permission criteria in response to a request for the location. If no permission criteria is sent by the mobile system, or if the permission criteria sent denies the request, the server system can, alternately, not reply to the request or reply with an error message. The permission criteria can include additional access limitations such as dates or times during which access is permitted or denied, and geographic areas in which access is permitted or denied.

    Methods and apparatuses for using mobile gps stations to synchronize basestations

    公开(公告)号:HK1063889A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-01-14

    申请号:HK04106511

    申请日:2004-08-30

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for synchronozing basestations in a cellular network. One exemplary method performs time synchronization between at least tow basestations, a first basestation and a second basestation, of a cellular communication system. In this exemplary method, a first time-of-day and a first geographical location of a first mobile cellular receiver station (MS) are determined from a first satellite positioning system (SPS) receiver which is co-located with the first MS, and the first time-of-day and first location are transmitted by the first MS to a first basestation which determines a time-of-day of the first basestation from the first time-of-day and first location and from a known location of the first basestation. Also in this exemplary method, a second time-of-day and a second geographical location of a second MS are determined from a second SPS receiver which is co-located with the second MS, and the second time-of-day and the second location are transmitted to a second basestation which determines a time-of-day of the second basestation from the second-time-of-day and the second location and a known location of the second basestation. Other methods and apparatuses are also described for synchronizing basestations in a cellular network.

    METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROCESSING OF GLOBAL POSITIONINGSYSTEM USING A MATCHED FILTER

    公开(公告)号:CA2436977A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-09-12

    申请号:CA2436977

    申请日:2001-12-04

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for processing Satellite Positioning System (SPS) signals. In one exemplary method, a first set of frequency coefficient, whic h corresponds to a first Doppler frequency of an SPS signal, is determined, an d said SPS signal is processed in a matched filter with the first set of frequency coefficients during a first window of time. A second set of frequency coefficients, which corresponds to a second Doppler frequency of t he SPS signal, is determined, and the SPS signal is processed in the matched filter with the second set of frequency coefficients during a second window of time, where the first and second windows of time occur within a period of ti me which is not greater than one SPS frame period. In another exemplary method, a first SPS signal is processed in a matched filter with a first set of pseudonoise (PN) coefficients during a first window of time, where the first set of PN coefficients corresponds to the first SPS signal, and a second SPS signal is processed in the matched filter with a second set of PN coefficien ts (which correspond with the second SPS signal) during a second window of time , wherein the first window and the second windows occur within a period of tim e not greater than one SPS frame period.

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