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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2005
Applicants:

Zhike Jia, San Jose, CA (US);

Chi-shin Wang, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhike Jia, San Jose, CA (US);

Chi-Shin Wang, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Assignee:

SIRF Technology Holdings, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods to achieve data bit synchronization from weak navigational satellite signals are based on a maximum likelihood criterion. The bit synchronization technique may be implemented by calculating a normalized dot product of two consecutive one-millisecond correlation values. Similar normalized dot products are calculated at intervals separated by one bit duration, and these dot products are summed and compared with pre-computed thresholds to declare bit edge detection. In another implementation, the normalized dot product of adjacent correlation values is replaced by a coherent integration powers of adjacent correlation values.


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