Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Provision and use of gaps for reference signal time difference measurements
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Application No.: US16054257Application Date: 2018-08-03
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Publication No.: US11470440B2Publication Date: 2022-10-11
- Inventor: Achaleshwar Sahai , Kapil Bhattad , Sven Fischer , Alberto Rico Alvarino , Mungal Singh Dhanda , Jae Ho Ryu
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Qualcomm Incorporated
- Priority: IN201741028437 20170810
- Main IPC: H04W4/02
- IPC: H04W4/02 ; H04W64/00 ; H04W76/28 ; G01S5/02 ; G01S5/10

Abstract:
Disclosed embodiments facilitate UE location determination in systems with dense PRS configurations, reduced PRS periodicity, frequency hopping, and involving UE inter-frequency measurements. The techniques may be applied to Bandwidth reduced-Low complexity (BL) UEs, or enhanced Machine Type Communication (eMTC) UEs or Further enhanced MTC (FeMTC) UEs and/or in LTE-M systems. A method on a UE may comprise: receiving a Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) measurement request; transmitting, in response to the RSTD measurement request, a dedicated gap request comprising a requested configuration of dedicated gaps; and receiving, in response to the dedicated gap request, a message comprising a dedicated gap configuration. The dedicated gap request may comprise a request for dedicated measurement gaps and the message may comprise a dedicated measurement gap configuration. In some embodiments, the dedicated gap request may comprise a request for dedicated autonomous gaps and the message may comprise a dedicated autonomous gap configuration.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190052996A1 PROVISION AND USE OF GAPS FOR REFERENCE SIGNAL TIME DIFFERENCE MEASUREMENTS Public/Granted day:2019-02-14
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