Enhanced location based services

• US 9,804,266 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2015
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Sauerwein, Jr., James Timothy
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Dao
• Application Number:
  US14/879,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20160033647A1
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• Field of Search: 34235722, 3423574, 34235742, 34235746, 34235743, 701468, 701469
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/06 employing an initial estimate of the location of the receiver as aiding data or in generating aiding data
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/27 creating, predicting or correcting ephemeris or almanac data within the receiver

Abstract

A device management system is comprised of a server-side proxy component and at least one back-end computer. The server-side proxy component is configured to receive ephemeris and almanac data from a source and information from at least one client describing the geographic location of the client. The server-side proxy component is configured to send the ephemeris and almanac data and the information from the client to a back-end computer. Responsive to receiving this data and information, the computer compiles it into GPS data relevant to the location of the client.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a server-side proxy component; and

a computer;

wherein the server-side proxy component is configured to;

receive ephemeris data and almanac data from a source;

receive information from a client describing a geographic location of the client; and

send the ephemeris data, the almanac data, and the information from the client describing the geographic location of the client to the computer; and

wherein the computer is configured to;

receive the ephemeris data, the almanac data, and the information from the client describing the geographic location of the client; and

responsive to receiving the ephemeris data, the almanac data, and the information from the client describing the geographic location of the client, compile the ephemeris data and the almanac data into GPS data relevant to the information from the client describing the geographic location of the client.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the server-side proxy component and the computer are located on the same physical device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the server-side proxy component is configured to request information from the client describing a geographic location of the client.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is configured to continuously send the GPS data to the client at fixed time intervals.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the source is a GPS satellite and/or a data feed.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the server-side proxy component is configured to;

receive a request for the GPS data from the client;

transmit the request to the computer; and

wherein the computer is configured, responsive to receiving the request from the server-side proxy component, to send the GPS data to the client.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the computer is configured to continuously send the GPS data to the client at fixed time intervals.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the source is a GPS satellite and/or a data feed.

9. A method, comprising:

receiving, with a computer, ephemeris and almanac data from a server-side proxy component, the ephemeris and almanac data having been received by the server-side proxy from a source;

receiving, with the computer, information describing a geographic location of a client from a server-side proxy component, the information having been received by the server-side proxy from the client; and

responsive to receiving the ephemeris and almanac data and the information describing a geographic location of at least one client, compiling, with the computer, the received ephemeris and almanac data into GPS data relevant to the received information describing the geographic location of the client.

10. The method of claim 9, comprising:

receiving, with the computer, a request for the GPS data from the server-side proxy, the request having been received by the server-side proxy from the client; and

transmitting, with the computer, the GPS data to the client.

11. The method of claim 9, comprising transmitting, with the computer, the GPS data to the client at fixed time intervals.

12. The method of claim 10, comprising transmitting, with the computer, the GPS data to the client at fixed time intervals.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the source is a GPS satellite and/or a data feed.

14. A computer program product comprising non-transitory computer readable storage media having stored thereon computer readable program code, which when executed by a processor within a computer, causes the computer to:

receive ephemeris and almanac data from a source;

receive information from a client describing a geographic location of the client; and

compile the received ephemeris and almanac data into GPS data relevant to the received information describing the geographic location of the client.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 having stored thereon computer readable program code, which when executed by a processor within a computer, causes the computer to:

receive a request for the GPS data from the client; and

send the GPS data to the client.

16. The computer program product of claim 14 having stored thereon computer readable program code, which when executed by a processor within a computer, causes the computer to continuously send the GPS data to the client at fixed time intervals.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, having stored thereon computer readable program code, which when executed by a processor within a computer, causes the computer to continuously send the GPS data to the client at fixed time intervals.