Granted Patent B2

US 12,529,752 · App. 17/811,413 · Granted Jan 20, 2026

Inventors: Marwen Zorgui (San Diego, CA); Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego, CA); Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego, CA); Taesang Yoo (San Diego, CA); Roohollah Amiri (San Diego, CA); Mohammad Tarek Fahim (San Diego, CA); Rajat Prakash (San Diego, CA); Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated

G01S5/02525G01S5/0268G01S5/02955

Abstract

Claims (135)

1 . A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

obtaining a first set of position of the UE based on applying a first positioning model to one or more radio frequency fingerprint positioning (RFFP) measurements;

obtaining a second set of position estimates of the UE using a positioning technique that does not use the first positioning model; and

transmitting a mismatch report, wherein the mismatch report is based on comparing the first set of position estimates with the second set of position estimates, and wherein the mismatch report is transmitted in response to:

a position difference between one or more position estimates of the first set of position estimates and one or more position estimates of the second set of position estimates exceeding a position difference threshold;

an average position difference between the first set of position estimates and the second set of position estimates exceeding an average position difference threshold;

one or more position uncertainty values associated with the first set of position estimates exceeding a first position uncertainty threshold;

receiving a mismatch report request from a network entity; or

any combination thereof.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

obtaining one or more further sets of position estimates of the UE, wherein each set of the one or more further sets is obtained using one or more further positioning techniques, wherein the one or more further positioning techniques do not use the first positioning model; and

the mismatch report is further based on comparing the first set of position estimates with the one or more further sets of position estimates.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the mismatch report is only transmitted based on one or more uncertainty values associated with the second set of position estimates are less than a second position uncertainty threshold.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a mismatch report request to transmit the mismatch report; and

transmitting the mismatch report in response to the mismatch report.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein:

multiple mismatch reports are transmitted in response to the mismatch report request.

6 . The method of claim 4 , wherein:

the mismatch report request is received via a first set of Long-Term Evolution Positioning Protocol (LPP) messages; and

the mismatch report is transmitted via a second set of LPP messages.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the second set of position estimates comprises:

performing one or more further positioning operations to obtain the second set of position estimates;

receiving a known position of the UE for inclusion in the second set of position estimates;

pre-configuring the UE with the known position for inclusion in the second set of position estimates; or

any combination thereof.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the one or more further positioning operations comprise:

applying a second positioning model to the one or more RFFP measurements;

applying a third positioning model to one or more further RFFP measurements;

one or more non-RFFP positioning operations; or

any combination thereof.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the second set of position estimate of the UE are obtained by applying a second positioning model to the one or more RFFP measurements; and

the first positioning model and the second positioning model have different processing costs.

10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a mismatch report configuration indicating

one or more position difference thresholds for triggering transmission of the mismatch report;

one or more average position difference thresholds for triggering transmission of the mismatch report;

one or more position difference thresholds for triggering generation of the mismatch report;

one or more average position difference thresholds for triggering generation of the mismatch report;

one or more RFFP configurations for performing the one or more RFFP measurements;

one or more positioning configurations for obtaining the second set of position estimates;

a first model identifier identifying the first positioning model;

a second model identifier identifying a second positioning model to which the one or more RFFP measurements are applied to obtain the second set of position estimates;

a third model identifier identifying a third positioning model to which one or more further RFFP measurements are applied to obtain the second set of position estimates;

one or more time windows for averaging position differences between the first set of position estimates and the second set of position estimates;

a number of position differences used to determine an average position difference between the first set of position estimates and the second set of position estimates;

inclusion of one or more first uncertainty values associated with the first set of position estimates in the mismatch report;

inclusion of one or more second uncertainty values associated with the second set of position estimates in the mismatch report;

inclusion of one or more channel parameters reported in the mismatch report; or

any combination thereof.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein:

the mismatch report configuration is received via one or more LPP messages.

12 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting one or more mismatch reporting capabilities of the UE to a network entity in a mismatch capabilities report.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the one or more mismatch reporting capabilities include:

channel condition reporting capabilities;

a maximum number of position estimates that the UE is capable of storing;

a maximum number of position differences that the UE is capable of reporting in a single mismatch report;

a maximum number of mismatch reports that the UE is capable of storing; or

any combination thereof.

14 . The method of claim 12 , wherein:

the mismatch capabilities report is transmitted in

an initial capability transfer associated with an RFFP positioning session in which the first set of position estimates is obtained;

a response to receiving a mismatch capabilities request;

an unsolicited transmission; or

any combination thereof.

15 . A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

obtaining a first set of position of the UE based on applying a first positioning model to one or more radio frequency fingerprint positioning (RFFP) measurements;

obtaining a second set of position estimates of the UE using a positioning technique that does not use the first positioning model; and

transmitting a mismatch report, wherein the mismatch report is based on comparing the first set of position estimates with the second set of position estimates, wherein:

comparing the first set of position estimates with the second set of position estimates comprises

determining a position difference between one or more position estimates of the first set of position estimates and one or more position estimates of the second set of position estimates; and

the mismatch report is based on comparing the position difference with a position mismatch threshold.

16 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:

comparing the first set of position estimates with the second set of position estimates comprises

determining an average position difference between a plurality of position estimates of the first set of position estimates and a plurality of position estimates of the second set of position estimates; and

the mismatch report is based on a comparison of the average position difference with an average position difference threshold.

17 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the mismatch report indicates:

a first model identifier associated with the first positioning model;

the one or more RFFP measurements applied to the first positioning model;

a second model identifier associated with a second positioning model applied to the one or more RFFP measurements to obtain the second set of position estimates;

a third model identifier associated with a third positioning model applied to one or more further RFFP measurements to obtain the second set of position estimates;

the one or more RFFP measurements applied to the second positioning model;

the one or more further RFFP measurements applied to the third positioning model;

one or more positioning techniques used to obtain the second set of position estimates;

an average position difference between a plurality of position estimates of the first set of position estimates and a plurality of position estimates of the second set of position estimates;

one or more position differences between the first set of position estimates and the second set of position estimates;

the first set of position estimates;

one or more first uncertainty values associated with the first set of position estimates;

one or more timestamps associated with the first set of position estimates;

a time span associated with obtaining the first set of position estimates;

the second set of position estimates;

one or more second uncertainty values associated with the second set of position estimates;

one or more timestamps associated with the second set of position estimates;

a time span associated with obtaining the second set of position estimates;

channel condition parameters used by the first positioning model to obtain the first set of position estimates;

channel condition parameters associated with obtaining the first set of position estimates;

channel condition parameters associated with obtaining the second set of position estimates; or

any combination thereof.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein:

the average position difference is reported as a horizontal position difference, a vertical position difference, a three-dimension position difference, or any combination thereof.

19 . The method of claim 17 , wherein:

the one or more position differences are reported as one or more horizontal position differences, one or more vertical position differences, one or more three-dimension position difference, or any combination thereof.

20 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first positioning model comprises:

a machine learning model;

a neural network; or

a combination thereof.

21 . A method of wireless communication performed by a network server, comprising:

configuring a user equipment (UE) to obtain

a first set of positioning measurements based on applying a first positioning model to one or more radio frequency fingerprint positioning (RFFP) measurements, and

a second set of positioning measurements of the UE using a positioning technique that does not use the first positioning model;

receiving, from the UE, a measurement report including the first set of positioning measurements and the second set of positioning measurements;

comparing a first set of position estimates determined from the first set of positioning measurements with a second set of position estimate determined from the second set of positioning measurements to assess a validity of the first positioning model; and

determining that the first positioning model is not valid based on

a position difference between one or more position estimates of the first set of position estimates and one or more position estimates of the second set of position estimates exceeding a position difference threshold;

an average position difference between the first set of position estimates and the second set of position estimates exceeding an average position difference threshold; or any combination thereof.

22 . A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a memory;

at least one transceiver; and

at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the at least one transceiver, the at least one processor configured to:

obtain a first set of position estimates of the UE based on applying a first positioning model to one or more radio frequency fingerprint positioning (RFFP) measurements;

obtain a second set of position estimates of the UE using a positioning technique that does not use the first positioning model; and

transmit, via the at least one transceiver, a mismatch report, wherein the mismatch report is based on comparing the first set of position estimates with the second set of position estimates, and wherein the mismatch report is transmitted in response to:

a position difference between one or more position estimates of the first set of position estimates and one or more position estimates of the second set of position estimates exceeding a position difference threshold;

an average position difference between the first set of position estimates and the second set of position estimates exceeding an average position difference threshold;

one or more position uncertainty values associated with the first set of position estimates exceeding a first position uncertainty threshold;

receiving a mismatch report request from a network entity; or

any combination thereof.

23 . The UE of claim 22 , wherein the at least one processor configured to obtain the second set of position estimates comprises the at least one processor configured to:

perform one or more further positioning operations to obtain the second set of position estimates;

receive, via the at least one transceiver, a known position of the UE for inclusion in the second set of position estimates;

pre-configure the UE with the known position for inclusion in the second set of position estimates; or

any combination thereof.

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