Patent ID: 7352322

Claim:
A Global Positioning System (GPS)-based positioning system, comprising: (a) a GPS terminal, including: (i) a GPS section for receiving and processing a GPS signal; (ii) a strategy selector, external to and coupled to the GPS section, that determines a positioning strategy based upon a state of the GPS section and has a mode determinator for determining a mode of operation of the GPS section that uses positioning requirements received from the GPS section; and (iii) a communication system, coupled to the GPS section and the strategy selector, for transmitting and receiving data to and from a location aiding server, and (b) a location aiding server, which communicates with the communications system of the GPS terminal via a communication network including: (i) an aiding data generation section for forming location aiding date; and (ii) a communication control section for transmitting date to and receiving data from the GPS terminal.