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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2005
David B. Taubenheim, Plantation, FL (US);
Spyros Kyperountas, Weston, FL (US);
David B. Taubenheim, Plantation, FL (US);
Spyros Kyperountas, Weston, FL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
To enable wireless applications which require the use of location information, a method and apparatus for transmitting location data within an ad-hoc communication system is provided herein. During operation, a portion of a packet payload is used to transmit location coordinate information along with an identifier of location estimation technique utilized for a node, as well as other parameters that may be needed for location estimation. Nodes in the communication system calculate their location coordinates using the said portion of packets received from other nodes in the communication system.