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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:
Jul. 23, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 21, 2017
Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Keith Briggs, London, GB;

Sian Webster, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 40/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); G01S 11/06 (2006.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/003 (2013.01); G01S 11/06 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 40/08 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 72/0473 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure provides a method of calculating a distance between a first and second base station in a cellular communications network, and a base station for performing said method, the method including a first base station periodically measuring a power of received signals from a second base station; the first base station identifying a first and second most frequent power of received signals in the periodic measurements; and the first base station determining a distance to a second base station based on the identified first and second most frequent power.


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