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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Shailender Potharaju, Fremont, CA (US);
Indermeet Singh Gandhi, San Jose, CA (US);
Clark A. Carty, Brunswick, OH (US);
Fred J. Anderson, Lakeville, OH (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method comprises: at a radio access network configured to communicate with a user equipment (UE) wirelessly, an access and mobility management function (AMF), and a positioning service, and through which the UE attached to a network using an attach procedure with the AMF: upon receiving a request for a location of the UE from the positioning service, scheduling resource blocks, configured for acquiring location measurements, across multiple radio units (RUs) of the radio access network, such that the resource blocks are synchronized in time and frequency across the multiple RUs; by the multiple RUs, exchanging, with the UE, the resource blocks as synchronized, and acquiring the location measurements from the multiple RUs based on exchanging; and forwarding the location measurements to the positioning service to enable the positioning service to determine the location of the UE based on the location measurements.