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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:
May. 12, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 20, 2018
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Akash Kumar, Hyderabad, IN;

Nilotpal Dhar, Hyderabad, IN;

Amit Jain, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04M 1/72519 (2013.01); H04M 1/72522 (2013.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.02); H04W 88/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for determining a position of a mobile device are provided. A method according to these techniques includes obtaining assistance data comprising information for cells associated with a plurality of wireless transmitters of a wireless communications network based on the coarse location of the mobile device, selecting a plurality of the cells from the assistance data, wherein selecting the plurality of cells includes identifying sets of colocated cells and selecting one cell from each of the colocated sets of cells; measuring signals from the plurality of cells to generate positioning signal measurements; and sending the positioning signal measurements to a location server. A colocated set of cells may include a narrowband cell and a non-narrowband cell, and the narrowband wireless cell may comprise a narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) cell and a non-narrowband cell colocated with the NB-IoT cell at an Evolved Node B (eNodeB).


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