Thin client for a GPS receiver network

• Main Authors: VAUCHER, FREDERIC, VICTA, KENNETH U, RASMUSSEN, CLARK W, MCBURNEY, PAUL W
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 08.02.2012
• 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

A thin-client navigation-satellite receiver network collects GPS pseudorange measurements and communicates them from many independent clients on a computer network to a server. The server computes the respective navigation solutions and sends the results back to each client. A client manager at the...