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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2003
Sundar Raman, Fremont, CA (US);
Reza Abtahi, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Qingwen Zhang, Torrance, CA (US);
Gengsheng Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lionel Jacques Garin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sundar Raman, Fremont, CA (US);
Reza Abtahi, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Qingwen Zhang, Torrance, CA (US);
Gengsheng Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lionel Jacques Garin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system within a multi-channel GPS receiver that searches for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites by receipt of a plurality of GPS signals where each GPS signal corresponds to a GPS satellite having a GPS satellite identification number (ID) is shown. The system may include a controller in control of the multi-channel GPS receiver that assigns each GPS satellite ID that corresponds to each of the plurality of GPS signals received by the multi-channel GPS receiver to an individual channel of the multi-channel GPS receiver and a monitoring channel selected by the controller from the multi-channel GPS receiver that monitors the received GPS signal.