Method for GNSS Coexistence
AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorsAriton E. Xhafa, Deric W. Waters
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Abstract
A method for operating a wireless transmitter and a global navigation satellite (“GNSS”) receiver coexistent in a mobile wireless device. A mobile wireless device includes a GNSS receiver and a wireless networking system. The wireless networking system includes a wireless transmitter. The wireless transmitter provides a first interference level signal to the GNSS receiver. The first interference level signal indicates a level of interference that the GNSS receiver can expect due to operation of the transmitter. A priority signal is asserted if the processing of navigation signals in the GNSS receiver takes precedence over wireless transmitter transmissions.
Claims9
1-11. (canceled)
A method, comprising:
- determining whether a wireless transmitter in a mobile wireless device has data to transmit;
- asserting a first interference level signal provided to a global navigation satellite system (“GNSS”) receiver in the mobile wireless device by the wireless transmitter if the wireless transmitter has data to transmit;
- controlling the processing of navigation signals in the GNSS receiver based, at least in part, on the assertion of the first interference level signal by the wireless transmitter;
- determining the location of the GNSS receiver based on the navigation signal processing;
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- asserting a priority signal provided by the GNSS receiver to the wireless transmitter if the processing of navigation signals in the GNSS receiver takes precedence over wireless transmitter transmissions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.