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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:
Sep. 01, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Csr Technology Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

James Burgess Tidd, Stockholm, SE;

Dimitri Rubin, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

CSR Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2013.01); G01C 21/206 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for switching a positioning device between using a first positioning technology and using a second positioning technology includes determining a location of the positioning device based on the first positioning technology, determining environment information corresponding to the location of the positioning device, and determining a location of a boundary where switching from the first positioning technology to the second positioning technology should occur. The method also includes switching from the first positioning technology to the second positioning technology prior to the positioning device crossing the boundary.


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