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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2007
Applicant:
Juha Tapani Rostrom, Tampere, FI;
Inventor:
Juha Tapani Rostrom, Tampere, FI;
Assignee:
Atheros Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04C 11/02 (2006.01); G04B 47/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A GPS enabled timepiece. A Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled timepiece in accordance with the present invention comprises a timepiece, the timepiece comprising a local oscillator, and a GPS receiver, coupled to the timepiece, the GPS receiver using the local oscillator to predict a time arrival of a GPS message from a GPS satellite, wherein the GPS receiver is powered on based on the predicted time.