Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for supporting location services via a home node B (HNB)
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Application No.: US15594970Application Date: 2017-05-15
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Publication No.: US10383166B2Publication Date: 2019-08-13
- Inventor: Stephen William Edge , Luis F. B. Lopes
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Hunter Clark PLLC
- Main IPC: H04W64/00
- IPC: H04W64/00 ; H04W36/32 ; H04W76/27 ; H04W84/04 ; H04W36/04 ; H04W4/02 ; G01S19/48 ; H04L29/08 ; H04W36/08

Abstract:
Techniques for supporting location services for a base station such as a home Node B (HNB) and its user equipments (UEs) are disclosed. In an aspect, location services may be supported for a UE by having an HNB inter-work between user plane and control plane location solutions. In another aspect, a location server may be used to support assisted GNSS (A-GNSS) for HNBs and UEs. In one design, a location server receives a positioning request including an identification value from a base station, determines a positioning method based on the identification value, sends a positioning response to the base station based on the positioning method, receives positioning information from the base station, determines the position of the base station based on the positioning information, and stores the position of the base station.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170251055A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING LOCATION SERVICES VIA A HOME NODE B (HNB) Public/Granted day:2017-08-31
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