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Granted Patent B2
US 12,114,281 · App. 17/280,207 · Granted Oct 8, 2024

Techniques for improving new radio (NR) positioning performance

Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Sergey Sosnin (Zavolzhie, RU); Seung Hee Han (San Jose, CA); Mikhail Shilov (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Yi Guo (Shanghal, CN)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W64/00G01S5/10
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Patent No.
US 12,114,281
App. No.
17/280,207
Granted
Oct 8, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for determining a position of a wireless device. In one example, an apparatus for a first wireless communication device including baseband circuitry having a radio frequency (RF) interface configured to transmit and receive RF signals is provided. The apparatus includes one or more processors configured to process a signal received from a second wireless communication device to identify at least first arrival path and a different arrival path between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device; and determine a location of the second wireless communication device based on the first arrival path and the different arrival path.

Claims (19)

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory to store information; and

processing circuitry coupled with the memory, the processing circuitry configured to:

receive a sequence initialization parameter from a base station, wherein the sequence initialization parameter indicates a value used by the base station to initialize a sequence used to generate a positioning signal, wherein the sequence initialization parameter is transmitted in signaling that is specific to a target user equipment (UE); and

receive the positioning signal from the base station based on the sequence initialization parameter.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the sequence initialization parameter is only transmitted in signaling that is specific to the target UE.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the sequence initialization parameter is unique to the UE.

4. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

a memory; and

a processor configured to, when executing instructions stored in the memory:

receive a sequence initialization parameter from a base station, wherein the sequence initialization parameter indicates a value used by the base station to initialize a sequence used to generate a positioning signal, wherein the sequence initialization parameter is transmitted in signaling that is specific to the UE; and

receive the positioning signal from the base station based on the sequence initialization parameter.

5. The UE of claim 4 , wherein the sequence initialization parameter is only transmitted in signaling that is specific to a target UE.

6. The UE of claim 4 , wherein the sequence initialization parameter is unique to the UE.

7. A method for a user equipment (UE) comprising:

receiving a sequence initialization parameter from a base station in signaling that is specific to the UE, wherein the sequence initialization parameter indicates a value used by the base station to initialize a sequence used to generate a positioning signal; and

receiving the positioning signal from the base station based on the sequence initialization parameter.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the-sequence initialization parameter is only transmitted in signaling that is specific to a target UE.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the sequence initialization parameter is unique to the UE.

Continuity (2)
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