- Patent Title: Accurate localization of client devices for wireless access points
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Application No.: US16134304Application Date: 2018-09-18
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Publication No.: US11035946B2Publication Date: 2021-06-15
- Inventor: Ioannis Pefkianakis , Kyu-Han Kim
- Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
- Current Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Patent Department
- Main IPC: G01S13/76
- IPC: G01S13/76 ; G01S7/295 ; H04W64/00 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems through which a wireless access point (AP) can determine the location of a client device with a high degree of accuracy. The AP uses CIR measurements for a plurality of directional beams used to communicate with the client device to determine a respective amplitude of a Line-of-Sight (LOS) path between the AP and the client device for each beam. The AP identifies a high-LOS-amplitude subset of the beams and, based on predefined radiation patterns associated with the beams included in the high-LOS-amplitude subset, determines a direction of the LOS path between the AP and the client device. The AP also determines a Time-of-Flight (ToF) for radio frames exchanged between the AP and the client device via the plurality of directional beams and uses the ToF to determine a distance between the AP and the client device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200088869A1 ACCURATE LOCALIZATION OF CLIENT DEVICES FOR WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS Public/Granted day:2020-03-19
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