IP Library Granted Patent US 11,841,443
Granted Patent B2
US 11,841,443 · App. 17/653,987 · Granted Dec 12, 2023

Scalable common view time transfer and related apparatuses and methods

Inventor: George Zampetti (Livermore, CA)
Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
G01S19/256G01S19/23G01S19/396
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Patent No.
US 11,841,443
App. No.
17/653,987
Granted
Dec 12, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Common view time transfer and related apparatuses and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes a receiver oscillator to provide a local clock signal and one or more processors. The one or more processors are to perform, at least partially based on the local clock signal, event time tagging pre-processing at least partially responsive to satellite signals received from one or more satellites to generate a decimated precision correction state estimate; determine, per satellite signal pseudo range residuals; determine a navigation engine clock state; perform a precision clock state pre-processing operation at least partially responsive to the navigation engine clock state and the decimated precision correction state estimate to generate a precision navigation clock state; and generate a common view real time report at least partially responsive to the per satellite signal pseudo range residuals and the precision navigation clock state.

Claims (38)

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a receiver oscillator to provide a local clock signal; and

one or more processors to:

perform event time tagging pre-processing at least partially responsive to satellite signals received from one or more satellites to generate a precision correction state estimate;

determine per satellite signal pseudo range residuals;

determine a navigation engine clock state;

perform a precision clock state pre-processing operation at least partially responsive to the navigation engine clock state and the precision correction state estimate to generate a precision navigation clock state; and

generate a common view real time report at least partially responsive to the per satellite signal pseudo range residuals and the precision navigation clock state.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:

the apparatus is an authoritative time system; and

the one or more processors are to implement a real time report disseminator to provide the common view real time report or a reduced common view real time report to a client time system.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the real time report disseminator includes a common view real time report dissemination reduction processor and a protocol mapper.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:

the apparatus is a client time system; and

the one or more processors are to perform a common view real time report reception operation on a common view real time report or a reduced common view real time report received from an authoritative time system.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the common view real time report reception operation includes a protocol de-mapper.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the precision clock state pre-processing operation includes a delay matching decimation filter to filter the navigation engine clock state.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the one or more processors are to, as part of the precision clock state pre-processing operation, sum the filtered navigation engine clock state with the decimated precision correction state estimate to generate the precision clock state estimate.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are to implement a common view real time report update generator to generate the common view real time report.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the common view real time report update generator includes a plurality of parallel anomaly classifiers to detect anomalies relevant to the common view real time report.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus includes a global navigational satellite system (GNSS) receiver.

11. A method, comprising:

performing event time tagging pre-processing at least partially responsive to satellite signals received from one or more satellites to generate a precision correction state estimate;

determining per satellite signal pseudo range residuals;

determining a navigation engine clock state;

performing a precision clock state pre-processing operation at least partially responsive to the navigation engine clock state and the precision correction state estimate to generate a precision navigation clock state; and

generating a common view real time report at least partially responsive to the per satellite signal pseudo range residuals and the precision navigation clock state.

12. The method of claim 11 , comprising disseminating a real time report dissemination operation to provide the common view real time report to a client time system.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein disseminating the real time report includes:

performing a common view real time report dissemination reduction processing operation; and

performing a protocol mapping function.

14. The method of claim 11 , comprising receiving a common view real time report or a reduced common view real time report from an authoritative time system.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein receiving the common view real time report or the reduced common view real time report includes performing a protocol de-mapping function.

16. The method of claim 11 , wherein performing the precision clock state pre-processing operation includes filtering the navigation engine clock state using a delay matching decimation filter.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein performing the precision clock state pre-processing operation includes summing the filtered navigation engine clock state with the decimated precision correction state estimate to generate the precision clock state estimate.

18. The method of claim 11 , comprising generating a common view real time report update to generate the common view real time report.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein generating the common view real time report update includes detecting anomalies relevant to the common view real time report using a plurality of parallel anomaly classifiers.

20. The method of claim 11 , wherein performing the event time tagging pre-processing at least partially responsive to satellite signals received from one or more satellites comprises performing the event time tagging pre-processing at least partially responsive to middle earth orbit satellite signals received from one or more middle earth orbit satellites.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 8, 2022
From: ZAMPETTI, GEORGE
To: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
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