Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device location determination when attached to one or more wireless repeaters
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Application No.: US15897313Application Date: 2018-02-15
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Publication No.: US10299068B2Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Michael P. McMullen , Roger Danforth Bartlett , Mark Douglas Peden , Raymond Emilio Reeves
- Applicant: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
- Applicant Address: US KS Overland Park
- Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
- Current Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US KS Overland Park
- Main IPC: H04L12/24
- IPC: H04L12/24 ; H04L5/14 ; H04L12/801 ; H04L12/28 ; H04W4/02 ; H04B3/36 ; H04J11/00 ; H04B7/04 ; H04W4/90 ; H04W64/00 ; H04W88/08 ; H04W88/02 ; H04W84/04 ; H04W4/20

Abstract:
A wireless communication network locates User Equipment (UE) that is served by a wireless repeater chain. The wireless repeater chain wirelessly exchanges user data with the UE and wirelessly exchanges the user data with a wireless base station. The wireless base station determines an amount of communication time delay between the UE and the wireless base station over the wireless repeater chain. The wireless base station identifies the wireless repeater in the wireless repeater chain that is wirelessly attached to the UE based on the communication time delay. The wireless base station identifies the geographic location of the UE based on the geographic location of the identified wireless repeater. The wireless base station transfers the geographic location of the UE.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180176720A1 DEVICE LOCATION DETERMINATION WHEN ATTACHED TO ONE OR MORE WIRELESS REPEATERS Public/Granted day:2018-06-21
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