Method and apparatus for position determination with extended SPS orbit information

• Main Authors: WENGLER MICHAEL JAMES, GUM ARNOLD JASON, MOEGLEIN MARK LEO, SHEYNBIAT LEONID, BLAC ZOLTON
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.07.2013
• 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 method and system for assisting mobile stations to locate a satellite use an efficient messaging format. A server computes a correction between coarse orbit data of a satellite and precise orbit data of the satellite. A coordinate system is chosen such that variation of the correction is substanti...