Patent ID: 9645242
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G01S,H04W

Claim:
1. A device comprising: a communication unit to communicate with at least one group of two or more mobile wireless communication devices; and a collaborative location error corrector to collaboratively correct location errors for the at least one group of two or more mobile wireless communication devices, said collaborative location error corrector is to receive an error report from at least a first mobile wireless communication device of said group, the error report including an estimated location of the first mobile wireless communication device based on signals from a location origin transmitter, the error report including an indication of an error offset to correct an error in the estimated location of said first mobile wireless communication device, the collaborative location error corrector to determine correction information based on a combination of a plurality of error reports from said group of mobile wireless communication devices, the plurality of error reports comprising at least the error report from said first mobile wireless communication device and another error report from another mobile wireless communication device of said group, the correction information comprising information to be applied to a location measurement based on the signals from the location origin transmitter, the correction information comprising at least one parameter selected from the group consisting of a parameter to correct an orbit error, a parameter to correct an atmospheric-based error, and a parameter to correct an offset of a map fix, the collaborative location error corrector to trigger providing said correction information to at least a second mobile wireless communication device of said group.