Granted Patent B2

US 12,356,438 · App. 17/809,107 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Inventors: Weimin Duan (San Diego, CA); June Namgoong (San Diego, CA); Hyojin Lee (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated

H04W72/51H04L5/0051H04L25/0204H04W72/0453

Abstract

Claims (88)

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

applying a plurality of positioning reference signal (PRS) processing windows to a PRS resource received from a network node over a multipath channel;

determining a plurality of channel estimates for the PRS resource based on the plurality of PRS processing windows;

determining a plurality of positioning measurements of the PRS resource based on the plurality of channel estimates, wherein each feature of a plurality of features of the PRS resource represents a part of a channel estimate of the plurality of channel estimates, and wherein the part of the channel estimate comprises less than or equal to a threshold number of channel taps of the multipath channel; and

receiving the threshold from a location server.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting a capability message to a location server, the capability message indicating that the UE is capable of applying the plurality of PRS processing windows to the PRS resource.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting a capability message to the location server, the capability message indicating a number of the plurality of positioning measurements of the PRS resource the UE is capable of reporting.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a request from the location server to report to the location server up to a maximum number of the plurality of positioning measurements of the PRS resource.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of PRS processing windows comprises:

one or more PRS processing windows of different types,

one or more PRS processing windows of a same type with different windowing parameters, or

a combination thereof.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

each of the plurality of positioning measurements is associated with an identifier, and

the identifier of a positioning measurement of the plurality of positioning measurements is associated with a PRS processing window of the plurality of PRS processing windows, a set of windowing parameters of the plurality of PRS processing windows, or both.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

reporting the plurality of positioning measurements to the location server to enable the location server to combine the plurality of positioning measurements.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of PRS processing windows comprise a plurality of frequency domain windows, a plurality of time domain windows, or a combination of frequency domain windows and time domain windows.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of PRS processing windows comprise:

a rectangular window,

a sinc window,

a Hamming window,

a raised-cosine window, or

any combination thereof.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of channel estimates comprises:

a plurality of channel impulse response estimates,

a plurality of channel energy response estimates,

a plurality of power delay profile estimates, or

any combination thereof.

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

applying a plurality of positioning reference signal (PRS) processing windows to a PRS resource received from a network node over a multipath channel;

determining a plurality of channel estimates for the PRS resource based on the plurality of PRS processing windows;

determining a plurality of features of the PRS resource based on the plurality of channel estimates, wherein each feature of the plurality of features represents a part of a channel estimate of the plurality of channel estimates, and wherein the part of the channel estimate comprises less than or equal to a threshold number of channel taps of the multipath channel; and

receiving the threshold from a location server.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein each feature of the plurality of features represents a channel estimate of the plurality of channel estimates.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

applying a plurality of feature combining methods to the plurality of features to generate a plurality of combined features each representing a different combination of the plurality of channel estimates; and

reporting the plurality of combined features to the location server.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein:

the plurality of feature combining methods is associated with a corresponding plurality of identifiers, and

each combined feature of the plurality of features is associated with an identifier of the plurality of identifiers associated with a feature combining method of the plurality of feature combining methods used to generate the combined feature.

15. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

receiving, from the location server, an indication of an optimal feature combining method of the plurality of feature combining methods.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the indication comprises an identifier of the optimal feature combining method.

17. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

training a machine learning algorithm based on the plurality of combined features.

18. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

reporting a plurality of positioning measurements of the PRS resource to the location server, each of the plurality of positioning measurements associated with a different feature combining method of the plurality of feature combining methods.

19. The method of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of PRS processing windows comprise a plurality of frequency domain windows, a plurality of time domain windows, or a combination of frequency domain windows and time domain windows.

20. The method of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of PRS processing windows comprise:

a rectangular window,

a sinc window,

a Hamming window,

a raised-cosine window, or

any combination thereof.

21. The method of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of channel estimates comprises:

a plurality of channel impulse response estimates,

a plurality of channel energy response estimates,

a plurality of power delay profile estimates, 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:

apply a plurality of positioning reference signal (PRS) processing windows to a PRS resource received from a network node over a multipath channel;

determine a plurality of channel estimates for the PRS resource based on the plurality of PRS processing windows;

determine a plurality of positioning measurements of the PRS resource based on the plurality of channel estimates, wherein each feature of a plurality of features of the PRS resource represents a part of a channel estimate of the plurality of channel estimates, and wherein the part of the channel estimate comprises less than or equal to a threshold number of channel taps of the multipath channel; and

receiving the threshold from the location server.

23. The UE of claim 22 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

transmit, via the at least one transceiver, a capability message to the location server, the capability message indicating that the UE is capable of applying the plurality of PRS processing windows to the PRS resource.

24. The UE of claim 22 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

transmit, via the at least one transceiver, a capability message to the location server, the capability message indicating a number of the plurality of positioning measurements of the PRS resource the UE is capable of reporting.

25. The UE of claim 22 , wherein:

each of the plurality of positioning measurements is associated with an identifier, and

the identifier of a positioning measurement of the plurality of positioning measurements is associated with a PRS processing window of the plurality of PRS processing windows, a set of windowing parameters of the plurality of PRS processing windows, or both.

26. 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 plurality of positioning reference signal (PRS) processing windows to a PRS resource received from a network node over a multipath channel;

determine a plurality of channel estimates for the PRS resource based on the plurality of PRS processing windows;

determine a plurality of features of the PRS resource based on the plurality of channel estimates;

applying a plurality of feature combining methods to the plurality of features of the PRS resource to generate a plurality of combined features each representing a different combination of the plurality of channel estimates, wherein the plurality of feature combining methods is associated with a corresponding plurality of identifiers, and each combined feature of the plurality of combined features of the PRS resource is associated with an identifier of the plurality of identifiers associated with a feature combining method of the plurality of feature combining methods used to generate the combined feature; and

reporting the plurality of combined features to a location server.

27. The UE of claim 26 , wherein each feature of the plurality of features represents a channel estimate of the plurality of channel estimates.

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