公开(公告)号：US20180227703A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-09

申请号：US15424524

申请日：2017-02-03

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Suresh Kumar Bitra ,  Ashwin Kumar Donthula ,  Stephen William Edge ,  Arun Kumar Sharma Tandra

IPC: H04W4/02

CPC classification number: H04W4/023 ,  G01S5/0236 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W84/042

Abstract: Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses for locating a User Equipment (UE) using one or more proximity devices (PDs) nearby to the UE. One of the provided exemplary techniques includes initiating, by the UE, a request for a location of the UE; sending, by the UE to a location server, a first message comprising a first information for at least one PD in communication with the UE; receiving, by the UE from the location server, a second message comprising a second information for the at least one PD; sending, by the UE to the at least one PD, the second information; receiving, by the UE from the at least one PD, a third information; and obtaining, by the UE, the location of the UE based on the third information.

公开(公告)号：US10021737B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-10

申请号：US14476546

申请日：2014-09-03

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge

IPC: H04W24/00 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W24/10 ,  G01S5/02 ,  H04W64/00

CPC classification number: H04W88/08 ,  G01S5/0236 ,  G01S5/0252 ,  H04W4/024 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W64/003

Abstract: Techniques are described for providing assistance data corresponding to a plurality of access points (APs). The techniques include, in part, providing assistance data to a mobile device. The assistance data comprises group data that is common among the plurality of APs. The group data is associated with a group identifier (ID). The techniques further include providing the group ID and a set of AP-specific information for at least one of the plurality of APs. The group data may include information corresponding to a common grid, common location area and/or common characteristics of the APs.

公开(公告)号：US20180124584A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-03

申请号：US15406526

申请日：2017-01-13

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Sai Pradeep Venkatraman ,  Stephen William Edge ,  Subash Marri Sridhar

IPC: H04W4/22 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W76/02 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04M3/51

CPC classification number: H04W4/90 ,  H04L65/1006 ,  H04L65/1016 ,  H04L65/1069 ,  H04L65/4076 ,  H04M3/5116 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/023 ,  H04W4/024 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W92/18

Abstract: Methods of assisting an emergency situation at a first User Equipment (UE) may comprise detecting the emergency situation; and sending an Emergency Services (ES) request comprising discovery information, wherein the ES request is sent by broadcast using a Long Term Evolution (LTE) Direct service, a WiFi Direct service, or a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) service. Disclosed embodiments also pertain to methods of assisting an emergency situation at a first UE, wherein the method is performed on a second UE and comprises receiving from the first UE an ES request comprising the discovery information for the first UE, wherein the ES request is received using an LTE Direct service; a WiFi Direct service or a P2P service. Disclosed embodiments further pertain to methods of communicating by first UE and/or second UE with a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) in order to assist discovery of the second UE by the first UE.

公开(公告)号：US09946883B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-17

申请号：US14250824

申请日：2014-04-11

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge ,  Andreas Klaus Wachter

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  G06F17/30 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F21/60 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W4/02

CPC classification number: G06F21/60 ,  H04L63/107 ,  H04L67/22 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W12/06

Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture are provided which may be implemented to authenticate the provider of a positioning engine provisioned within a mobile station to enable the positioning engine to obtain and use protected positioning assistance data. In certain examples, a relationship between the provider of a location server and the provider of a positioning engine provisioned within a mobile station may be authenticated, and protected positioning data may be obtained from said positioning engine by said location server.

公开(公告)号：US09936526B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-03

申请号：US15170567

申请日：2016-06-01

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge

IPC: H04W76/00 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04W4/22 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W12/08

CPC classification number: H04W76/50 ,  H04W4/021 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W4/90 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable management of an asset to be transferred from a first entity to a second entity such that an Information Manager that stores information for the asset can authenticate the management transfer when the second entity requests the Information Manager to access or modify the stored information for the asset. Authentication is enabled using a token assigned to the asset by the Information Manager which is provided to the first entity by the Information Manager, transferred from the first entity to the second entity following the transfer of management and provided to the Information Manager by the second entity to enable authentication of the request by the second entity to access or modify the stored information for the asset. In an embodiment, the asset may be a WiFi access point or Bluetooth beacon and the Information Manager may be a National Emergency Address Manager.

公开(公告)号：US20180054796A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-22

申请号：US15409468

申请日：2017-01-18

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  H04W4/02

CPC classification number: H04W64/003 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W64/00

Abstract: Methods and techniques are described for supporting location services for a user equipment (UE) that is using Narrowband Internet of Things radio access or Cellular Internet of Things features to access a wireless network. The techniques include enabling support for a last known location of a UE, using previously obtained location measurements, when a UE is not reachable from a wireless network for positioning. The techniques also include limiting positioning protocol interaction between a UE and a location server via a reduced maximum message size, reduced message volume and longer response and retransmission timers. The techniques further include enabling a UE to obtain location measurements when not connected to a wireless network, enabling periodic and triggered location of a UE in which a UE evaluates location triggers while not connected to a wireless network, enabling use of deferred location and enabling improved location security.

公开(公告)号：US09798010B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-24

申请号：US13732071

申请日：2012-12-31

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Sven Fischer ,  Stephen William Edge

IPC: G01S19/06 ,  G01S19/25

CPC classification number: G01S19/06 ,  G01S19/252 ,  G01S19/254

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and/or articles of manufacture, which may be employed in a mobile device and/or in a location server, enable acquisition assistance at the mobile device. In at least one implementation, which is not intended to limit claimed subject matter, acquisition assistance may include expected Doppler frequency shift and expected code phase in the case of a particular Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellite vehicle, as well as a search window for each of these, and a confidence value. The confidence value may indicate the likelihood of detecting signals from the satellite vehicle at the current expected location of the mobile device and within the given search windows and may enable one or more of faster location estimation, reduced battery consumption, and detection of weaker satellite signals.

公开(公告)号：US09699758B2

公开(公告)日：2017-07-04

申请号：US14866575

申请日：2015-09-25

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge ,  Sven Fischer ,  Philip Michael Hawkes

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04L9/06 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W12/10 ,  H04L9/32 ,  H04W4/06 ,  G01S19/05 ,  H04W4/20 ,  G01S19/25 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W12/02

CPC classification number: H04W64/00 ,  G01S19/05 ,  G01S19/25 ,  H04L9/0637 ,  H04L9/3249 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L63/12 ,  H04L2209/80 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04W4/20 ,  H04W12/02 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W12/10

Abstract: Various techniques are provided for Location Services (LCS) Assistance Data broadcast, for example for implementation in LTE and LTE-A systems. The embodiments described herein may use the LPP/LPPe positioning protocol, by making use of existing unsolicited Provide Assistance Data (PAD) messages. Embodiments avoid the need to define and implement a separate broadcast Assistance Data protocol. Additional exemplary embodiments for scheduling and verifying of the broadcast Assistance Data messages are described herein.

公开(公告)号：US20170135064A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-11

申请号：US15411244

申请日：2017-01-20

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge ,  Nathan Tenny ,  Sven Fischer

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  G01S5/00 ,  G01S5/02

CPC classification number: H04W64/006 ,  G01S5/0018 ,  G01S5/0045 ,  G01S5/0054 ,  G01S5/0236 ,  H04L67/18

Abstract: Techniques for supporting positioning for terminals in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, positioning for a target device includes exchanging positioning messages that support a plurality of positioning methods between the target device and a location server. The positioning message may include common parameters applicable for all positioning methods. One of the positioning messages may be a Request Assistance Data message to request assistance data for a first positioning method, wherein the common parameters for the Request Assistance Data message includes an approximate location of the target device determined using a different positioning method. Another positioning message may be a Provide Assistance Data message to provide assistance data that is not in response to a request for assistance data, wherein the common parameters for the Provide Assistance Data message may include an approximate location of the target device or a current time.

公开(公告)号：US09612114B2

公开(公告)日：2017-04-04

申请号：US14022734

申请日：2013-09-10

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Andreas Klaus Wachter ,  Kirk Allan Burroughs ,  Lionel Jacques Garin ,  Stephen William Edge ,  Bruce Everett Wilson ,  Carlos Manuel Puig

IPC: G01L7/00 ,  G01C5/06

CPC classification number: G01C5/06

Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods for populating and using a pressure database to determine an altitude of a unit with an unknown altitude are presented. A pressure from one or more barometric pressure sensors linked to respective base stations are interpolated to determine a reference pressure (e.g., at sea level) at arbitrary coordinates (x,y) having pressure reading. For example, a mobile station at the arbitrary coordinates (x,y) records a pressure at the mobile station. A difference between this pressure at the mobile station and the interpolated reference pressure is determined, which may directly be interpreted as a defined altitude of the mobile station.