On demand positioning

• US 10,393,883 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2015
• Issued: 08/27/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Ische, Marc Anthony, Hatami, Ahmad, Heshmati, Ardalan, Biacs, Zoltan F., Rowitch, Douglas Neal, Farmer, Dominic Gerard, Kamarsu, Srigouri, Wu, Jie
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Dao L
• Application Number:
  US14/950,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20160077215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,372 Days
• Field of Search: 3423572, 34235725, 34235728, 34235729, 342450, 701469, 701495
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/071 DGPS corrections
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/46 the supplementary measurement being of a radio-wave signal type
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/48 by combining or switching between position solutions derived from the satellite radio beacon positioning system and position solutions derived from a further system

Abstract

The subject matter disclosed herein relates to determining a background location of a mobile device using one or more signal metrics.

Claims

1. A method for determining a location of a mobile station, comprising:

determining one or more signal metrics from at least one wide area device, local area device, personal area network device or any combination thereof;

comparing the one or more signal metrics to one or more predefined thresholds;

determining background position information for the mobile station based on the one or more signal metrics and the comparing; and

storing the background position information.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a location based upon SPS positioning technologies.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining the location based upon SPS positioning technologies further comprises reducing search uncertainty for an SPS search based, at least in part, upon the background position information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one wide area device, local area device, or personal area network device comprises a CDMA, UMTS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, RFID, broadcast TV, broadcast FM, and/or Bluetooth device.

5. A mobile station for determining location, comprising:

means for determining one or more signal metrics from at least one wide area device, local area device, personal area network device or any combination thereof;

means for comparing the one or more signal metrics to one or more predefined thresholds;

means for determining background position information for the mobile station based the one or more signal metrics and the comparing; and

means for storing the background position information.

6. The mobile station of claim 5, further comprising means for determining the location based upon SPS positioning technologies.

7. The mobile station of claim 6, wherein said means for determining the location based upon SPS positioning technologies further comprises means for reducing search uncertainty based, at least in part, upon the background position information.

8. The mobile station of claim 5, wherein the at least one wide area device, local area device, or personal area network device comprises a CDMA, UMTS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, RFID, broadcast TV, broadcast FM, and/or Bluetooth device.

9. An mobile station for determining location, comprising:

a transceiver;

a memory;

a processing unit coupled to the transceiver and the memory, wherein the processing unit configured to;

determining one or more signal metrics from at least one wide area device, local area device, personal area network device or any combination thereof;

comparing the one or more signal metrics to one or more predefined thresholds;

determining background position information for the mobile station based the one or more signal metrics and the comparing; and

storing the background position information.

10. The mobile station of claim 9, wherein the processing unit is further configured to determine the location based upon SPS positioning technologies.

11. The mobile station of claim 10, wherein the processing unit is further configured to reduce SPS search uncertainty based, at least in part, upon the background position information.

12. The mobile station of claim 9, wherein the at least one wide area device, local area device, or personal area network device comprises a CDMA, UMTS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, RFID, broadcast TV, broadcast FM, and/or Bluetooth device.

13. A non-transitory storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions, for determining a location of a mobile station, stored thereon which, if executed by a processing unit, perform positioning, the instructions comprising:

code for determining one or more signal metrics from at least one wide area device, local area device, personal area network device or any combination thereof;

code for comparing the one or more signal metrics to one or more predefined thresholds;

code for determining background position information for the mobile station based on the one or more signal metrics and the comparing; and

code for storing the background position information.

14. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 13, further comprising code for determining the location based upon SPS positioning technologies.

15. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 14, wherein said code for determining the location based upon SPS positioning technologies further comprises code for reducing search uncertainty based, at least in part, upon the background position information.

16. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 13, wherein the at least one wide area device, local area device, or personal area network device comprises a CDMA, UMTS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, RFID, broadcast TV, broadcast FM, and/or Bluetooth device.