Thin-client
US6584404B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 19, 2002 |
| Grant date | Jun 24, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 19, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S19/09
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A thin-client navigation-satellite receiver network collects GPS pseudorange measurements and communicates them from many independent clients on a computer network to a server. The server computes the respective navigation solutions and sends the results back to each client. A client manager at the server includes a client-request handler that interfaces with the network and collects the discrete requests from each of the clients. An assembler builds complete data sets from one to five seconds worth of data gathered by the client-request handler and spins each ready-to-go job to a bank of navigation servers. A session manager coordinates the inputs-and-results communication on the network and sends its outputs to a client responder.
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