IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR WIRELESS SIGNAL PROCESSING

• US 20120183023A1
• Filed: 01/14/2011
• Published: 07/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Filipovic, Daniel F., Geng, Jifeng
• Application Number:
  US13/006,818
• Publication Number:
  US 20120183023A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/220
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/09 providing processing capability normally carried out by the receiver

Abstract

Implementations including methods, apparatuses, and systems relating to processing wireless signals are disclosed. Such processing may be performed, at least in part, at a receiver platform receiving such wireless signals and/or at a remote computing platform to obtain information that may be used in a variety of contexts, including cellular communications, radio-frequency identification, and navigation. In some techniques, modulated signals are received at a receiver platform, and at least partially demodulated and used to generate data. The data is transmitted to one or more network resources, and processed to obtain information based on the information in the modulated signals.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at a mobile device, receiving one or more wireless signals modulated according to one or more predetermined modulation formats;

obtaining raw in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) data from the received one or more wireless signals; and

transmitting one or more signals representative of the raw I/Q data from the mobile device to a remote server via a communication network.

2. The method of claim 1, and further comprising:

receiving from the remote server via the communication network one or more signals representative of information obtained from processing the signals representative of the raw I/Q data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the received one or more wireless signals are at least in part modulated according to a radio-frequency identification (RFID) modulation format, and wherein the information obtained from at least a partial processing of the signals representative of the raw I/Q data comprises information retrieved from a database associated with an identifier determined from the signals representative of the raw I/Q data.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the received one or more wireless signals are at least in part modulated according to a wireless cellular communication protocol, and wherein the information obtained from processing the signals representative of the raw I/Q data comprises voice data.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the received one or more wireless signals are modulated at least in part according to one or more satellite positioning system (SPS) modulation formats, and wherein the information obtained from processing the signals representative of the raw I/Q data comprises positioning information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information obtained from processing the signals representative of the raw I/Q data is produced based, at least in part, on an evaluation of a plurality of correlations using hypotheses spanning at least two dimensions including at least a codephase dimension and a Doppler dimension.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the information obtained from processing the signals representative of the raw I/Q data is produced based, at least in part, on an evaluation of a plurality of correlations using hypotheses spanning at least three dimensions including at least a codephase dimension, a Doppler dimension and a frequency drift dimension.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the hypotheses are evaluated in the frequency drift dimension in piecewise steps.

9. A method, comprising:

receiving via a communication network raw I/Q data obtained from one or more wireless signals modulated according to one or more predetermined modulation formats; and

obtaining information from processing the received raw I/Q data based, at least in part, on a plurality of correlations using an evaluation of hypotheses spanning at least three dimensions, the three dimensions including at least a codephase dimension, a Doppler dimension, and a frequency drift dimension.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein receiving raw I/Q data comprises receiving the raw I/Q data at a remote server as signal information originating from a receiver platform.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

transmitting a signal representative of the obtained information from the remote server to the receiver platform via the communication network.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more predetermined modulation formats comprises one or more satellite positioning system (SPS) modulation formats, and wherein the information comprises positioning information determined at the remote server from the raw I/Q data.

13. A mobile device, comprising:

a receiver to receive wireless signals;

a network interface to communicate with a communication network;

a processor to;

receive via the receiver one or more wireless signals modulated according to one or more predetermined modulation formats;

obtain raw I/Q data from the received one or more wireless signals; and

initiate transmission, via the network interface, of one or more signals representative of the raw I/Q data to a remote server via the communication network.

14. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the receiver comprises an RFID receiver to receive the one or more wireless signals that are at least in part modulated according to an RFID modulation format;

and

wherein the processor is further to receive via the network interface information that comprises information retrieved from a database associated with an identifier obtained from the raw I/Q data.

15. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the receiver comprises a wireless cellular receiver to receive the one or more wireless signals that are at least in part modulated according to a wireless cellular communication protocol;

and

wherein the processor is further to receive via the network interface information that comprises voice data obtained from the raw I/Q data.

16. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the receiver comprises a satellite positioning system (SPS) receiver to receive the one or more wireless signals that are modulated at least in part according to one or more satellite positioning system (SPS) modulation formats;

and

wherein the processor is further to receive via the network interface information that comprises positioning information obtained from the raw I/Q data.

17. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein the processor is further to receive the information that is obtained from the raw I/Q data based, at least in part, on a plurality of correlations using an evaluation of hypotheses spanning at least two dimensions including at least a codephase dimension and a Doppler dimension.

18. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein the processor is further to receive the information that is produced based, at least in part, on a plurality of correlations using an evaluation of hypotheses spanning at least three dimensions including at least a codephase dimension, a Doppler dimension and a frequency drift dimension.

19. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein said processor is further to receive via the network interface from the remote server via the communication network one or more signals representative of information obtained from processing the raw I/Q data.

20. An apparatus, comprising:

a server system, comprising;

one or more computing platforms programmed with instructions to;

obtain via a communication network, one or more signals representative of raw I/Q data obtained at a mobile device from one or more wireless signals modulated according to one or more predetermined modulation formats;

obtain information from processing the raw I/Q data; and

transmit to the mobile device via the communication network, one or more signals representative of the information obtained from the processing of the raw I/Q data.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the one or more wireless signals are at least in part modulated according to an RFID modulation format;

and

wherein the computing platform is further programmed with instructions to retrieve the information from a database associated with an identifier obtained from the raw I/Q data.

22. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the one or more wireless signals are at least in part modulated according to a wireless cellular communication protocol;

and

wherein the computing platform is further programmed with instructions to produce the information that comprises voice data.

23. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the one or more wireless signals are at least in part modulated according to one or more satellite positioning system (SPS) modulation formats;

and

wherein the computing platform is further programmed with instructions to produce the information that comprises positioning information obtained from the raw I/Q data.

24. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the computing platform is further programmed with instructions to produce the information based, at least in part, on a plurality of correlations using an evaluation of hypotheses spanning at least two dimensions including at least a codephase dimension and a Doppler dimension.

25. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the computing platform is further programmed with instructions to produce the information based, at least in part, on a plurality of correlations using an evaluation of hypotheses spanning at least three dimensions including at least a codephase dimension, a Doppler dimension and a frequency drift dimension.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the hypotheses are evaluated in the frequency drift dimension in piecewise steps.

27. An article, comprising:

storage media having instructions stored thereon executable by one or more processors to;

obtain raw I/Q data from one or more wireless signals received at a mobile device, said wireless signals modulated according to one or more predetermined modulation formats; and

initiate transmission of one or more signals representative of the raw I/Q data to a remote server via a communication network.

28. The article of claim 27 wherein storage media further includes instructions to receive from the remote server via the communication network one or more signals representative of information obtained from processing the raw I/Q data.

29. The article of claim 28, wherein the one or more predetermined modulation formats comprises at least an RFID modulation format, and wherein the received information comprises information retrieved from a database associated with an identifier obtained from the raw I/Q data.

30. The article of claim 28, wherein the one or more predetermined modulation formats comprises at least a wireless cellular communication protocol, and wherein the received information comprises voice data obtained from the raw I/Q data.

31. The article of claim 28, wherein the one or more predetermined modulation formats comprises at least one or more satellite positioning system (SPS) modulation formats, and wherein the received information comprises positioning information obtained from the raw I/Q data.

32. A mobile device, comprising:

means for receiving one or more wireless signals modulated according to one or more predetermined modulation formats;

means for obtaining raw I/Q data from the received one or more wireless signals; and

means for transmitting one or more signals representative of the raw I/Q data to a remote server via a communication network.

33. The mobile device of claim 32, and further comprising:

means for receiving from the remote server via the communication network one or more signals representative of information obtained from processing the raw I/Q data.

34. The mobile device of claim 33, wherein the one or more predetermined modulation formats comprises at least one or more satellite positioning system (SPS) modulation formats, and wherein the received information comprises positioning information obtained from the raw I/Q data;

and

wherein the received information is produced based, at least in part, on a plurality of correlations using an evaluation of hypotheses spanning at least three dimensions including at least a codephase dimension, a Doppler dimension and a frequency drift dimension.