Qualcomm Incorporated

Csr Technology Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sirf Technology, Inc.

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Nxp B.v.

Sirf Technology Holdings, Inc.

Sundar Raman

Gengsheng Zhang

Ju-Yong Do

Sai Pradeep Venkatraman

Lionel Jacques Garin

Amir Abbas Emadzadeh

Weihua Gao

James M Brown

Qingwen Zhang

Douglas Neal Rowitch

Mangesh M Chansarkar

Charles P Norman

Paul A Underbrink

Henry D Falk

Robert Harvey

Peter Michali

William Higgins

Emilija Milorad Simic

Hariharan Sukumar

Weiyi Liu

Williams Higgins

Reza Abtahi

Ali Jafarnia Jahromi

Gensheng Zhang

Carlos Horacio Aldana

Shailesh Maheshwari

Vinay Sridhara

Xiaoxin Zhang

Dominic Gerard Farmer

Gerardo Giaretta

Steven A Gronemeyer

Andrew Chou

Vamsi Dokku

Chandrakant Mehta

Raul Herman Etkin

Gaurav Lamba

Ferit Ozan Akgul

Arie Rahmat

Bernal A Arroyo

Stephen Joseph Beauregard

Vidula Rajeev Kurundkar

Francis Keith Scherrer

Murthy S Vempati

Pravesh Asthana

Jamie A Henriksen

Vamsi Krishna Dokku

Amir A Emadzadeh

James Brown

Zhang Gengsheng

Zhang Qingwen

A system and a method are disclosed for verifying a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) space vehicle (SV) signal. An extremely weak frame synchronization (EWFS) verification process is run on a current SV signal with respect to another verified SV signal. An indication is set that frame synchronization for the current SV signal is complete after full frame synchronization occurs based on a peak EWFS correlation value of the current SV signal being equal to or greater than a first threshold. The indication may be set early based on the peak EWFS correlation value of the current SV signal being greater than a second threshold value that is greater than the first threshold. Tracking of the current SV signal may be terminated early based on the peak EWFS correction value of the current SV signal being less than a third threshold that is less that the first threshold.

Detection and termination of fake GNSS measurements in the presence of interference

A system and a method are disclosed for detecting a spurious signal in a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. A detector of the GNSS receiver determines a first sequence of known bits or known-bit transitions of a space vehicle (SV) signal of a target SV. A second sequence is determined based on a coherent sum of the SV signal being tracked by the GNSS receiver. A first reliability sequence may be associated with the first sequence, and a second reliability sequence that may be associated with the second sequence. A correlation statistic of the first sequence is determined based on the second sequence. Whether the first SV signal is a spurious signal is determined based on a comparison of the correlation statistic to a threshold value.

Spurious space vehicle detection via exploiting knowledge of known bits

A receiver and method thereof are provided for synchronizing with a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) including a plurality of satellite vehicles (SVs). The method includes starting a verification process and a bitsync (BS) process in parallel with a first SV among the plurality of SVs, and upon completing the verification process while still performing the BS process, starting a track channel process with the first SV based on an interim BS result obtained at the time of completing the verification process, and starting a frame sync (FS) process with first SV based on the interim BS result. An aligned acquisition (AA) process may be started with a second SV among the plurality of SVs, upon completing the verification process, based on the interim BS result.

Method and apparatus for synchronizing with global navigation satellite system

Methods, apparatuses, and devices are disclosed to estimate a position of a mobile device using, for example, beacon signals transmitted using virtual access points utilizing a single, physical transceiver. Determination that beacon signals emanate from a single, physical transceiver may be based, at least in part, on a similarity among acquired beacon signals conveying identifiers, such as media access control identification (MAC ID) addresses and/or basic service set identifiers (BSSIDs), and on measurement of beacon signal characteristics, such as received signal strength at a mobile device and/or round trip time between the mobile device and the transceiver.

Methods, apparatuses, and devices for mobile device position estimation using virtual access points

Method, device, and computer program product that may improve communications between a mobile device and an access point device are disclosed. In one embodiment, an access point device includes a transceiver configured to receive signals from a mobile device, a processor coupled to the transceiver, and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having stored thereon code configured to be executed by the processor, the code instructing the processor to: control a plurality of beacons in the access point device, obtain range measurements using the plurality of beacons in the access point device, and assist calibration of a beacon in the mobile device using the range measurements obtained by the plurality of beacons in the access point device.

Communications between a mobile device and an access point device

Control and feature systems for processing signals from a satellite positioning system include an expert system receiver manager; a joint detection, carrier centring and bit sync acquisition subsystem; peak detection; a multi-dimensional measurement interpolation subsystem; a system for mode switching between a navigational signal; and power control module for receiver.

Control and features for satellite positioning system receivers

Methods, systems, and devices are described for managing broadcasts of data in wireless communications. A request to join a multicast session is received. A plurality of broadcast technology based identifiers associated with the multicast session are received. Each broadcast technology based identifier identifies one of a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) broadcasting the multicast session. One of the plurality of RATs is selected. A multicast stream of data associated with the multicast session is received from the selected RAT.

Managing broadcast services

Methods and apparatus for processing positioning assistance data are provided. An exemplary method includes receiving, from a positioning server, virtual access point (VAP) data including a list of unique identifiers, and determining a location of a mobile device by using the VAP. The VAP data indicates that the unique identifiers included on the list identify signals originating from the same physical access point. The unique identifiers can be MAC addresses. In an example, the location determining the can include actively scanning a signal identified by a unique identifier on the list and not actively scanning a different signal identified by a different unique identifier also on the list. Not scanning the other MAC addresses that are on the access point's list and assigned to the mobile device keeps the mobile device from performing duplicative scanning that wastes time, processor cycles, and energy.

Method and apparatus for delivering assistance data from a server to a device identifying virtual access points

Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for providing location based services in a venue. To estimate its location, in a particular implementation, a mobile device may obtain a measurement of a range to a transponder device positioned at a known location based on measurements of a signal round-trip time (RTT) in a message exchange with the transponder device. Positioning assistance data from a server may enable the mobile device to measure a delay at the transponder device in providing a response to a probe message to thereby more accurately measure the signal RTT.

Methods, systems and devices for providing location based services in a venue

Systems, apparatus and methods for determining a cyclic shift delay (CSD) mode from a plurality of CSD modes is disclosed. A received OFDM signal is converted to a channel impulse response (CIR) signal in the time domain and/or a channel frequency response (CFR) signal in the frequency domain. Matched filters and a comparator are used to determine a most likely current CSD mode. Alternatively, a classifier is used with a number of inputs including outputs from two or more matched filters and one or more outputs from a feature extractor. The feature extractor extracts features in the time domain from the CIR signal and/or in the frequency domain from the CFR signal useful in distinguishing various CSD modes.

Cyclic shift delay detection using a classifier

Various methods, apparatuses and/or articles of manufacture are provided which may be implemented in one or more electronic devices supporting mobile device positioning within an indoor environment. Tiered positioning assistance data (tiered-PAD) corresponding to an indoor environment may be generated and/or distributed. Mobile device positioning and/or navigation capabilities may be based, at least in part, on tiered-PAD corresponding to the indoor environment. Tiered-PAD may be provided to a plurality of mobile devices. A given mobile device may, for example, select applicable portion(s) of tiered-PAD to affect one or more positioning functions and/or the like which may be performed, at least in part, by the mobile device.

Tiered positioning assistance data for mobile devices within an indoor environment

A method for requesting assistance data includes, at a mobile device, determining an expected quality of service information, transmitting a request for assistance data, transmitting the expected quality of service information, and receiving an assistance data file comprising heat map information, wherein the heat map information includes a heat map grid resolution and a suitable quantization precision level for heat map values as determined, at least in part, based on the expected quality of service information.

Adaptive assistance data for tiered service and efficiency in indoor positioning

Techniques are provided for providing a processing delay estimate of an access point, or turnaround calibration function (TCF), associated with round trip time (RTT) measurements. Mobile devices, access points, and/or other systems can utilize these techniques to derive processing delay from the RTT measurements. Crowdsourcing can also be used to help increase the accuracy of the processing delay estimate, which can be propagated to multiple devices.

Processing delay estimate based on crowdsourcing data

Method, device, and computer program product that may improve communications between a mobile device and an access point device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of communicating between a mobile device and an access point device comprises control a plurality of beacons in the access point device, establishing a communication between the access point device with the mobile device using a first beacon in the plurality of beacons, broadcasting availability of the plurality of beacons in the access point device via the first beacon, and establishing the communication with the mobile device using a second beacon in the plurality of beacons.

A method for providing tiered indoor positioning service includes: receiving a request for assistance data from a mobile device; receiving expected quality of service information from the mobile device; generating an adaptive assistance data file comprising heat map data based at least in part on the received expected quality of service information; and transmitting the adaptive assistance data file to the mobile device.

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Sundar Raman