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Granted Patent B2
US 12,228,667 · App. 17/930,844 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Positioning model codepoint configuration

Inventors: Marwen Zorgui (San Diego, CA); Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego, CA); Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego, CA); Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego, CA); Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
G01S5/0252H04L1/1614H04L5/0048H04W64/003
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Patent No.
US 12,228,667
App. No.
17/930,844
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

In an aspect, a method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a positioning model codepoint (PMC) index of a plurality of PMC indexes, wherein each PMC index of the plurality of PMC indexes is mapped to a corresponding positioning model of at least a subset of a plurality of positioning models configured at the UE; and applying a positioning model, mapped to the PMC index, to one or more RFFP positioning measurements to obtain one or more position parameters corresponding to a location of the UE during a positioning session.

Claims (79)

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving a positioning model codepoint (PMC) index of a plurality of PMC indexes, wherein each PMC index of the plurality of PMC indexes is mapped to a corresponding positioning model of at least a subset of a plurality of positioning models configured at the UE; and applying a positioning model, mapped to the PMC index, to one or more radio frequency fingerprint positioning (RFFP) measurements to obtain one or more position parameters corresponding to a location of the UE during a positioning session.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving the plurality of positioning models from a network server.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of positioning models is received at the UE during a start of the positioning session.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of positioning models is configured at the UE before a start of the positioning session during one or more model configuration operations occurring outside of the positioning session.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

each of the plurality of PMC indexes are configured based on a bitmap received from a network server, wherein bits of the bitmap indicate which positioning models of the plurality of positioning models are mapped to a sequence of PMC indexes.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

each of the plurality of PMC indexes has a data size of log 2 (codepoint size) bits, wherein the codepoint size corresponds to a number of positioning models in the subset of the plurality of positioning models configured at the UE.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

at least one PMC index of the plurality of PMC indexes is mapped to a classical New Radio positioning technique specified by a network server.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the position parameters comprise:

the location of the UE;

one or more position coordinates associated with the location of the UE;

one or more positioning measurements associated with the location of the UE; or

a combination thereof.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of positioning models is determined based on an approximate UE location of the UE, a UE area as identified by a tracking area identifier of the UE, or a combination thereof.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a further PMC index, wherein the further PMC index is mapped to a further positioning model providing a position measurement output that is different than the one or more position parameters provided by the positioning model; and

transmitting, to a network server, the position measurement output of the further positioning model.

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

applying a selected positioning model to one or more radio frequency fingerprint positioning (RFFP) measurements to obtain one or more position parameters corresponding to a location of the UE during a positioning session, wherein the selected positioning model is selected from a plurality of positioning models configured at the UE;

transmitting, to a network server, at least one of the one or more position parameters; and

transmitting, to the network server, a positioning model codepoint (PMC) index that is mapped to the selected positioning model, wherein the PMC index is one of a plurality of PMC indexes mapped to corresponding positioning models of at least a subset of the plurality of positioning models configured at the UE.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein:

one or more positioning models of the plurality of positioning models are indicated for use with one or more channel conditions measured by the UE.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein:

the selected positioning model is selected based on channel conditions detected by the UE.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein:

the one or more positioning models of the plurality of positioning models are indicated for use with the one or more channel conditions in metadata associated with the one or more positioning models.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:

receiving assistance data indicating one or more transmission points used in the positioning session;

receiving one or more model channel reference signals from the one or more transmission points used in the positioning session; and

determining the one or more channel conditions based on measuring the one or more model channel reference signals.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein:

the one or more model channel reference signals are received outside of a time allocated to the positioning session; and

the one or more channel conditions are determined outside of the time allocated to the positioning session.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein:

the one or more model channel reference signals are dedicated for use in selecting the positioning model.

18. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:

transmitting one or more model channel reference signals; and

determining the one or more channel conditions based on receiving one or more environmental reflections of the one or more model channel reference signals received at the UE.

19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising:

receiving a configuration for transmitting the one or more model channel reference signals.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the configuration for transmitting the one or more model channel reference signals comprises:

a frequency domain resource allocation for the one or more model channel reference signals;

a time domain resource allocation for the one or more model channel reference signals;

power parameters associated with the one or more model channel reference signals; or

any combination thereof.

21. The method of claim 11 , wherein:

the plurality of positioning models is configured at the UE during a start of the positioning session.

22. The method of claim 11 , wherein:

the plurality of positioning models is configured at the UE before a start of the positioning session during one or more positioning model configuration operations occurring outside of the positioning session.

23. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving, from the network server, a PMC configuration for mapping the plurality of PMC indexes to at least the subset of the plurality of positioning models configured at the UE.

24. The method of claim 22 , wherein:

each of the plurality of PMC indexes is configured based on a bitmap received from a network server, wherein bits of the bitmap indicate which positioning models of the plurality of positioning models are mapped to a sequence of PMC indexes.

25. The method of claim 11 , wherein:

at least one PMC index of the plurality of PMC indexes is mapped to a classical new radio positioning technique specified by a network server.

26. The method of claim 11 , wherein the position parameters comprise:

the location of the UE;

one or more position coordinates associated with the location of the UE;

one or more positioning measurements associated with the location of the UE; or

a combination thereof.

27. 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: receive, via the at least one transceiver, a positioning model codepoint (PMC) index of a plurality of PMC indexes, wherein each PMC index of the plurality of PMC indexes is mapped to a corresponding positioning model of at least a subset of a plurality of positioning models configured at the UE; and apply a positioning model, mapped to the PMC index, to one or more radio frequency fingerprint positioning (RFFP) measurements to obtain one or more position parameters corresponding to a location of the UE during a positioning session.

28. The UE of claim 27 , wherein:

at least one PMC index of the plurality of PMC indexes is mapped to a classical New Radio positioning technique specified by a network server.

29. 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:

apply a selected positioning model to one or more radio frequency fingerprint positioning (RFFP) measurements to obtain one or more position parameters corresponding to a location of the UE during a positioning session, wherein the selected positioning model is selected from a plurality of positioning models configured at the UE;

transmit, via the at least one transceiver, to a network server, at least one of the one or more position parameters; and

transmit, via the at least one transceiver, to the network server, a positioning model codepoint (PMC) index that is mapped to the selected positioning model, wherein the PMC index is one of a plurality of PMC indexes mapped to corresponding positioning models of at least a subset of the plurality of positioning models configured at the UE.

30. The UE of claim 29 , wherein:

the selected positioning model is selected based on channel conditions detected by the UE.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 5, 2022
From: ZORGUI, MARWEN; HIRZALLAH, MOHAMMED ALI MOHAMMED; YERRAMALLI, SRINIVAS; ABOTABL, AHMED ATTIA; ZHANG, XIAOXIA
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
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