SIMPLIFIED RECEIVER WITH ROTATOR FOR PERFORMING POSITION LOCATION

• Main Authors: ZOU, QIUZHEN, KANG, INYUP, SIH, GILBERT, C, FEVRIER, IAN, J
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.08.2009
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; TESTING

The present invention is a novel and improved method and apparatus for performing position location in wireless communications system. One embodiment comprises a method for performing position location using a set of signals transmitted from a set of satellites including the steps of storing coarse search data, performing a coarse search on said coarse search data for each satellite from said set of satellites, receiving fine search data, performing a set of fine searches on said fine search data, each fine search being performed on a different time segment of said fine search data, and reporting results.