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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:
Jan. 07, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2008
Applicants:

Raymond Gardea, Winston-Salem, NC (US);

James Gwynn, Greensboro, NC (US);

John Bate, Oak Ridge, NC (US);

Inventors:

Raymond Gardea, Winston-Salem, NC (US);

James Gwynn, Greensboro, NC (US);

John Bate, Oak Ridge, NC (US);

Assignee:

Volvo Group North America LLC, Greensboro, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for determining location such as vehicle location receives data at a predetermined frequency, validates the received data, stores the received data based on the validation and computes a location based on the stored data. The validation includes verifying a presence of particular data substrings within the received data, verifying a presence of a plurality of data fields within each data substring, computing a parameter based on information contained in two of the plurality of data fields and comparing the computer parameter with a pre-defined threshold.


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