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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 07, 2016
Applicant:

Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd., Cambridge, GB;

Inventor:

Raja Banerjea, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); G01S 3/48 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 17/27 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/023 (2013.01); G01S 3/48 (2013.01); H04B 7/0805 (2013.01); H04B 7/086 (2013.01); H04B 17/27 (2015.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract

An apparatus includes an antenna array including at least a first antenna element and a second antenna element separated by a first distance. The apparatus receives a wireless advertising message, having a known bit pattern, via the first and second antenna elements. The apparatus samples a first portion of the known bit pattern from the wireless advertising message received via the first antenna element, and samples a second portion of the known bit pattern from the wireless advertising message received via the second antenna element, and determines a phase difference between the received wireless advertising message at each of the first and second antenna elements by correlating the first sampled portion and the second sampled portion to the known bit pattern. The apparatus then determines an angle of arrival (AoA) of the wireless advertising message based at least in part on the phase difference and the first difference.


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