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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2001
Neal K. Patwari, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Robert J. O'Dea, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Vernon A. Allen, Sunrise, FL (US);
Matthew R. Perkins, Sunrise, FL (US);
Monique J. Bourgeois, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A system for locating a number of devices ( ) by measuring signals transmitted between known location devices ( ) and unknown location devices ( ), and signals transmitted between pairs of unknown location devices ( ), entering signal measurements into a graph function that includes a number of first sub-expressions, a number of which include signal measurement prediction sub-expressions, and have extrema when a predicted signal measurement is equal to an actual signal measurement, and optimizing the graph function.