Pseudoposition generator

• US 20040229631A1
• Filed: 03/04/2004
• Published: 11/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Skyhook Holding, Inc. (Liberty Broadband Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Useful Networks Canada, Inc.
• Inventors: George, James
• Granted Patent: US 7,477,905 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0054 of actual mobile position, i.e. position calculation on base station
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0294 Trajectory determination or predictive filtering, e.g. target tracking or Kalman filtering
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A method of tracking an object using a mobile transceiver carried by the object, the method comprising the steps of receiving, at a computer, location information from the mobile transceiver; computing a predicted location of the mobile transceiver from the location information; and forwarding the predicted location to a user.

Claims

1. A method of tracking an object using a mobile transceiver carried by the object, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, at a computer, location information from the mobile transceiver or a computer network server having location information concerning the mobile transceiver, wherein the location information contains information on the motion of the mobile transceiver;

computing a predicted location of the mobile transceiver from the location information, including by analyzing information on the motion of the mobile transceiver; and

forwarding the predicted location to a user.