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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2009
Bryce A. Jones, Overland Park, KS (US);
Rodney D. Nelson, Overland Park, KS (US);
Mike P. Mcmullen, Leawood, KS (US);
John R. Schuler, Sarasota, FL (US);
Bryce A. Jones, Overland Park, KS (US);
Rodney D. Nelson, Overland Park, KS (US);
Mike P. McMullen, Leawood, KS (US);
John R. Schuler, Sarasota, FL (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and system for routing position-determining requests to position-determining platforms. The method includes receiving into a position-determining system a position-determining request specifying a given processing-duration within a given range. The processing-duration defines a maximum amount of time that the system should spend determining position and thereby defines a corresponding granularity of position-determination by the system. All processing-durations in the given range, although different from each other, define the same corresponding granularity of position-determination by the system. The method further includes the system selecting, based on which processing-duration of the range the given processing-duration is, a position-determining platform of the plurality to process the received position-determining request. The method then includes routing the received position-determining request to the selected position-determining platform for processing.