Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Robust reference signal time difference measurements
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Application No.: US15257808Application Date: 2016-09-06
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Publication No.: US10028096B2Publication Date: 2018-07-17
- Inventor: Amit Jain , Harisrinivas Chandrasekar , Borislav Ristic , Dinesh Subramani , Gautam Nirula , Prabhu Kandasamy
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP
- Main IPC: H04W24/00
- IPC: H04W24/00 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W24/08 ; G01S5/10 ; G01S5/02

Abstract:
Disclosed embodiments pertain to combining Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) measurements from partial measurement sessions that result when a single measurement session is interrupted by one or more interruption events including Out of Service (OOS) or Inter-Frequency Handover (IFH) events. In some embodiments, first Time Of Arrival (TOA) measurements of cellular signals during a plurality of discontiguous partial measurement sessions separated by one or more interruption events may be obtained. Second TOA measurements based on a reference time source may be obtained for a plurality of the first TOA measurements from at least two partial measurement sessions. A cell associated with a second TOA measurement may be selected as a reference cell and for each non-reference cell associated with a second TOA measurement, a corresponding RSTD measurement may be obtained relative to the selected reference cell.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180070209A1 ROBUST REFERENCE SIGNAL TIME DIFFERENCE MEASUREMENTS Public/Granted day:2018-03-08
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