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US 8,478,228 B2Granted
Mobile receiver with location services capability
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorDouglas Neal Rowitch
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Abstract
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a receiver that is capable of processing signals which are transmitted according to one or more wireless communication protocols. Such a receiver may have sufficient resources to obtain acquisition information from a signal transmitted according to at least one of the wireless communication protocols during an acquisition period and for the purpose of obtaining an estimate of a location of the receiver.
Claims22
An apparatus comprising:
- a receiver to process information transmitted according to a wireless communication protocol, said wireless communication protocol defining an acquisition period for transmission of acquisition information and a communication session to facilitate communication following a successful acquisition,
- wherein the acquisition information comprises unique identification information associated with a device, a media access control (MAC) address associated with a device, or a measurement of received signal strength, and
- wherein said receiver is capable of storing acquisition information transmitted during said acquisition period and does not comprise sufficient resources to establish and/or maintain said communication session following said successful acquisition.
A mobile station comprising:
- a receiver to process signal transmitted according to at least a first wireless communication protocol and a second wireless communication protocol, each of said first and second wireless communication protocols defining an associated acquisition period for transmission of acquisition information and an associated communication session to facilitate communication following a successful acquisition;
- a transmitter to transmit signals transmitted according to at least said first wireless communication protocol;
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- a processor to enable one or more applications using a communication session according to said first wireless communication protocol,
- wherein said mobile station is capable of storing acquisition information received during said acquisition period defined by said second wireless communication protocol and does not have sufficient resources to establish and/or maintain said communication session defined by said second wireless communication protocol, and
- wherein the acquisition information comprises unique identification information associated with a device, a media access control (MAC) address associated with a device, or a measurement of received signal strength.
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A processor comprising:
- a memory having stored thereon encoded instructions to process information transmitted according to a first wireless communication protocol and a second wireless communication protocol, each of said first and second wireless communication protocols defining an associated acquisition period for transmission of acquisition information and an associated communication session to facilitate communication following a successful acquisition, said instructions comprising:
- instructions to enable one or more applications using a communication session according to said first wireless communication protocol;
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- instructions to store acquisition information received during said acquisition period defined by said second wireless communication protocol;
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- circuitry, coupled to said memory, to retrieve and execute said instructions,
- wherein said memory does not include instructions encoded instructions for establishing and/or maintaining a communication session according to said second wireless communication protocol and
- wherein the acquisition information comprises unique identification information associated with a device, a media access control (MAC) address associated with a device, or a measurement of received signal strength.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a receiver to process information transmitted according to a wireless communication protocol, said wireless communication protocol defining an acquisition period for transmission of acquisition information to enable reception of a broadcast signal following a successful acquisition,
- wherein the acquisition information comprises unique identification information associated with a device, a media access control (MAC) address associated with a device, or a measurement of received signal strength, and
- wherein said receiver is capable of storing acquisition information transmitted during said acquisition period and does not comprise sufficient resources to process broadcast content in broadcast signal following said successful acquisition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.