Invention Grant
- Patent Title: One to many ranging techniques
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Application No.: US16777631Application Date: 2020-01-30
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Publication No.: US11796667B2Publication Date: 2023-10-24
- Inventor: Jonathan R. Schoenberg , Robert Golshan , Merrick K. McCracken , Yagil Burowski
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: KILPATRICK, TOWNSEND AND STOCKTON LLP
- Main IPC: G01S13/76
- IPC: G01S13/76 ; G01S13/87

Abstract:
A mobile device can include ranging circuitry to determine distance to another mobile device. A first wireless protocol can establish an initial communication session to perform authentication and/or exchange ranging settings. One mobile device acting as a beacon device can define a ranging round including an initial timeslot and a plurality of non-overlapping response slots for discovering and performing ranging with any mobile device in a vicinity of the beacon. The beacon can broadcast a ranging request including a beacon device identifier at a request time. A first mobile device can transmit a first acknowledgement message during a first response slot. A second mobile device can transmit a second acknowledgement message during a second response slot. The beacon device can calculate a first distance from the first mobile device and a second distance from the second mobile device based at least upon information in the first and second acknowledgement messages.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210072373A1 ONE TO MANY RANGING TECHNIQUES Public/Granted day:2021-03-11
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