公开(公告)号：US11785620B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-10

申请号：US17141069

申请日：2021-01-04

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge ,  Sony Akkarakaran ,  Sven Fischer

IPC: H04W72/51 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/20 ,  H04W12/037 ,  H04W12/0431 ,  H04W72/542

CPC classification number: H04W72/51 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/20 ,  H04W12/037 ,  H04W12/0431 ,  H04W72/542

Abstract: An external client requests the location of a UE using control plane signaling. The UE sends downlink location measurements, such as Reference Signal Time Differences, for a plurality of base stations (BSs) to a serving BS at a layer 1 or layer 2 protocol level and at first periodic intervals. The UE and the plurality of BSs send additional location measurements, such as receive time-transmission time differences, to the serving BS at second periodic intervals, which are longer than the first periodic intervals. The serving BS uses the additional location measurements and downlink location measurements to determine timing information, such as Real Time Differences, for the plurality of BSs. The serving BS determines the location of the UE using the downlink location measurements and the timing information at the first periodic intervals and sends the location to the external client using user plane signaling to reduce delay.

公开(公告)号：US11758468B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-12

申请号：US17304905

申请日：2021-06-28

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Bharat Shrestha ,  Umesh Phuyal ,  Stephen William Edge

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W48/04 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W72/51

CPC classification number: H04W48/04 ,  H04W36/0061 ,  H04W72/51 ,  H04W74/0833

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit, to a base station associated with a non-terrestrial network and in connection with a random access procedure, a message that indicates a location of the user equipment; and receive a response to the message that indicates whether the message is accepted or rejected, the response being based at least in part on the location. Numerous other aspects are provided.

公开(公告)号：US11696122B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-04

申请号：US17328353

申请日：2021-05-24

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  H04W12/02 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/044 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04W12/63

CPC classification number: H04W12/02 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W52/0225 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W64/003 ,  H04W72/0473 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04L63/0428 ,  H04W12/63 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: Uplink high efficiency location of a user equipment (UE) includes initiating periodic or triggered location in the UE by a location server (LS) in a wireless network. The UE enters an idle state and monitors for triggering events. After detecting an event, the UE transmits an uplink positioning signal (UPS) to a base station, where the UPS encodes UPS data comprising a UE ID, an ID for the LS, an authentication code (AC) and location measurements. UPS transmission occurs in an uplink positioning occasion shared with other UEs. The location measurements may be ciphered but other UPS data is unciphered. The base station obtains additional location measurements and transfers the UPS data and the location measurements to the LS. The LS authenticates the UE ID using the AC, determines the UE location using the location measurements and transfers the location to an external client.

公开(公告)号：US11696095B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-04

申请号：US17478545

申请日：2021-09-17

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge ,  Hong Cheng ,  Haris Zisimopoulos

IPC: H04W4/029 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W84/12

CPC classification number: H04W4/029 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W36/0022 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Methods and techniques are described for supporting location services for a user equipment (UE) using a location server and service based interfaces (SBIs) and SBI service operations in a Fifth Generation wireless network. The location server may be, e.g., a Location Management Function (LMF). The LMF may be in either a serving Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) for a UE or in a Home PLMN for a roaming UE. The LMF may receive a location service request for the UE using an SBI and may communicate with another entity in the network, through a second entity and using an SBI, to obtain location information for the UE measured by the other entity. The LMF may determine a location for the UE based on the location information.

公开(公告)号：US11678291B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-13

申请号：US15409454

申请日：2017-01-18

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/70 ,  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：US11647361B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-09

申请号：US17839295

申请日：2022-06-13

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Stephen William Edge ,  Lorenzo Ferrari ,  Rajat Prakash ,  Xiaoxia Zhang ,  Alexandros Manolakos ,  Sven Fischer

IPC: H04W4/029 ,  G01S5/02 ,  H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04W4/029 ,  G01S5/0236 ,  G01S5/02216 ,  H04L5/0048

Abstract: A wireless network including user equipment (UE) and base stations is configured to perform position determination with low latency and synchronized to a common time within a wireless network. The UE and base stations are configured to perform positioning measurements at a specific time point or within a window around the time point in a measurement period. The time point may be relative to a timing event within the wireless network, such as the beginning or end of a positioning reference signal window or a specific message in a layer 1 or layer 2 transmission. A location server may be provided with the positioning measurements or a position estimate from the UE and provide the position estimate to an external client within the measurement period.

公开(公告)号：US11619702B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-04

申请号：US16992847

申请日：2020-08-13

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi ,  Stephen William Edge ,  Hem Agnihotri

IPC: G01S3/72 ,  G01S1/04 ,  H04B7/04 ,  G01S5/10 ,  G01S5/02 ,  H04B7/0426 ,  H04B7/0408

Abstract: The angle of departure (AOD) of directed beams, e.g., beamformed beams, transmitted by one or more base stations, such as a gNB, and the angle of arrival (AOA) of the directed beams received by a UE may be used to improve positioning accuracy by identifying Line Of Sight (LOS) beams and multi-path beams. The differential AOA (DAOA) of a directed beam pair may compared to the differential AOD (DAOD) of the directed beam pair. Matching DAOA and DAOD may be used as an indication that the directed beams in the beam pair are LOS with the UE, whereas a mis-match indicates one or both of the directed beams are multi-path. The location of the UE may be estimated using the measurement information, e.g., AOA, RTT, RSTD, etc., obtained from LOS directed beams.

公开(公告)号：US11589330B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-21

申请号：US17387913

申请日：2021-07-28

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen William Edge

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  H04W60/00 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: Satellite access to a PLMN with a Fifth Generation (5G) core network (5GCN) is supported by a serving satellite NodeB (gNB). The gNB determines or verifies the country in which a user equipment (UE) is located to ensure that the UE is located in the same country as the PLMN. The gNB may determine the country of the UE based on UE measurements from broadcast satellite signals and a positioning ID (PID) broadcast for each radio cell. The PID frequently changes to prevent spoofing. The gNB may use multiple UE measurements from a moving radio cell over a period of time to generate a more accurate location for the UE. The gNB may indicate to a 5GCN whether the country of the UE has been verified. The 5GCN will determine the location and country of the UE if the gNB indicates that the country is not fully verified.

公开(公告)号：US11570789B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-31

申请号：US17089618

申请日：2020-11-04

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug ,  Alexandros Manolakos ,  Stephen William Edge ,  Sven Fischer

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W64/00 ,  A61F5/00

Abstract: A method of coordinating positioning signaling includes: identifying a first user equipment (UE) served by a base station and a second UE served by the base station, the base station being configured to send a base station positioning signal wirelessly at a plurality of base-station-transmission times; allocating first times to the first UE, for sending first UE positioning signals, and second times to the second UE, for sending second UE positioning signals, at least one of the first times being different from at least one of the second times; sending a first communication to cause the first UE to send at least a respective one of the first UE positioning signals at each of the first times; and sending a second communication to cause the second UE to send at least a respective one of the second UE positioning signals at each of the second times.

公开(公告)号：US11564199B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-24

申请号：US17302521

申请日：2021-05-05

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Akash Kumar ,  Stephen William Edge ,  Amit Jain

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  H04W48/08 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W4/024 ,  H04W72/08

Abstract: Methods and systems for wireless communication are provided. In one example, a mobile device is configured to: obtain beam support information of a plurality of cells; perform measurements of one or more signals at the mobile device based on the beam support information of the plurality of cells to support a location determination operation for the mobile device; and transmit results of the measurements of the one or more signals to at least one of a location server or to a base station to support the location determination operation. The beam support information may include: a number of beams supported at each cell of the plurality of cells, information to identify each beam of the number of beams supported at the each cell, beam width information of the each beam, and/or Positioning reference Signals (PRS) codebook information which encapsulates the beams which are enabled along various elevation and azimuth angles.