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Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Akash Kumar, Hyderabad, IN;

Amit Jain, San Diego, CA (US);

Ankita, Hyderabad, IN;

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0456 (2017.01); G01S 1/20 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); G01S 5/10 (2006.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01); H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0456 (2013.01); G01S 1/20 (2013.01); G01S 5/0221 (2013.01); G01S 5/10 (2013.01); H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04B 7/066 (2013.01); H04B 7/0632 (2013.01); H04B 7/0689 (2013.01); H04B 7/0817 (2013.01); H04B 7/0891 (2013.01); H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04L 1/0026 (2013.01); H04L 1/0029 (2013.01); H04L 5/0023 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments are directed to a user equipment (UE) that performs MIMO communication on a plurality of Component Carriers (CCs) in accordance with a Carrier Aggregation (CA) scheme with each CC having an associated rank number that indicates a respective number of receive chains for the CC, selects at least one of the plurality of CCs for tuning away from the MIMO communication in order to perform an inter-frequency (IF) Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) measurement, selects, from among a plurality of receive chains allocated to the selected at least one CC, a subset of receive chains that includes less than all of the plurality of receive chains to be tuned away from the MIMO communication to perform the inter-frequency PRS measurement, and tunes the selected subset of receive chains of the selected at least one CC away from the MIMO communication to perform the inter-frequency PRS measurement.


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