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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2016
U-blox A.g., Thalwil, CH;
Marco Driusso, Merbourn Royston, GB;
Christopher Brian Marshall, Reigate, GB;
u-blox AG, Thalwil, CH;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for calculating a ranging measurement in a cellular communications network. The method comprises: receiving () at a receiver () a first signal associated with a first cell-sector of a sectorised base station in the cellular communications network; determining () at least one first time of arrival at the receiver () of a portion of the first signal; receiving () at the receiver () a second signal associated with a second cell-sector of the sectorised base-station; determining () at least one second time of arrival at the receiver () of a portion of the second signal; and calculating () a ranging measurement between the base station and the receiver (), based on a combination of the at least one first time of arrival and the at least one second time of arrival.