Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Position detection of user equipment within a wireless telecommunication network
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Application No.: US16323610Application Date: 2017-08-10
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Publication No.: US10966175B2Publication Date: 2021-03-30
- Inventor: Zhilan Xiong , Michel Robert
- Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- Agency: Fay Sharpe LLP
- Priority: EP16306049 20160812
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/070392 WO 20170810
- International Announcement: WO2018/029326 WO 20180215
- Main IPC: H04W64/00
- IPC: H04W64/00 ; G01S1/04 ; H04L1/18 ; H04L5/00

Abstract:
A method network node, user equipment and location server are disclosed, the method performed at the network node comprises broadcasting position reference signals, the position reference signals being broadcast as a repeating pattern within a periodically repeating position reference signal time period, comprising: controlling the network node to broadcast during each of the position reference signal time periods, a plurality of position reference signal blocks each within a time frequency resource block, at least one of the plurality of position reference signal blocks comprising a plurality of consecutive subblocks, at least one position reference signal subblock comprising a time period in the time frequency resource block during which the network node broadcasts the position reference signal and at least one muted subblock comprising a different time period within the time frequency resource block during which the network node broadcasts no position reference or data signal in a frequency bandwidth of the time frequency resource block.
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