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To: Drew Williams who wrote (11599)4/8/2000 8:13:00 PM
From: A.L. Reagan  Respond to of 29987
 
Position Location Via Satellite. Here's an interesting Qualcomm patent published March 16, 2000 entitled: FAST USER TERMINAL POSITION DETERMINATION IN A SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

Link requires Adobe Acrobat reader. The first few pages are mostly comprehensible, but after that we're in the realm of the technically inclined:

l2.espacenet.com

Beginning on the third page of the link above is explained the background of the invention, which clearly has to do exactly with Globalstar as opposed to Omni-Tracs. I think this dovetails with what the thread has been saying, and just perhaps we're really on to something here (that maybe Value Line hasn't quite figured out!)

The background paper also references two other pending patent applications (presumably Qualcomm's) related to the same topic.



To: Drew Williams who wrote (11599)4/9/2000 6:06:00 PM
From: John Walliker  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 29987
 
Drew,

An in-vehicle system determines is triggered, so it dials a monitoring facility and transmits its location (GPS) and the nature of the problem


A problem with this is that GPS is easily jammed with a suitable low-power radio transmitter.

John