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Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Shankar Venkatraman, San Jose, CA (US);

Jin Yang, Orinda, CA (US);

Lei Song, Fremont, CA (US);

Yee Sin Chan, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 72/044 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device may determine a set of characteristics of a network. The set of characteristics may relate to a set of wireless devices connected to the network. The device may alter a network configuration associated with a set of positioning reference signals (PRS signals) transmitted via the network based on the set of characteristics of the network. The alteration may relate to a characteristic of the set of PRS signals or a resource allocation for providing the set of PRS signals via the network. The device may transmit the set of PRS signals based on altering the network configuration to enable geolocation to be performed by the set of wireless devices connected to the network.


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