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MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE WITH POSITIONING SYSTEM AND SHARED PROCESSOR

  • US 20090102710A1
  • Filed: 08/05/2008
  • Published: 04/23/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A multi-function mobile device capable of radio communication with a data network/multimedia reproduction and determination of a position based on a positioning signal, comprising:

  • a positioning engine in said mobile device that performs real-time calculations with said positioning signal;

    a shared memory coupled to said positioning engine that (1) receives and stores in real time results of said real-time calculations, each said result comprising correlations under a hypothesis relating the position signal with a selected signal source and a selected Doppler shift and (2) stores results of the calculation for said radio communication or multimedia reproduction functions;

    a shared processor coupled to said memory that (1) retrieves and processes said results to generate positioning information and (2) performs calculation for said radio communication or multimedia reproduction.

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