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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.

Patent No.:

US 12455338 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2023

Using non-positioning signals for positioning in downlink and/or uplink

Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, San Diego, CA (US);

Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);

Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);

Hong He, San Jose, CA (US);

Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US);

Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US);

Sigen Ye, San Diego, CA (US);

Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US);

Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US);

Yushu Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Primary Examiner:

Zewdu A Beyen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); G01S 5/00 (2006.01); G01S 5/10 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/51 (2023.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/0036 (2013.01); G01S 5/10 (2013.01); H04L 5/0012 (2013.01); H04L 5/0051 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/51 (2023.01); H04W 74/0866 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods of a wireless communications system using signals not traditionally used for positioning purposes for positioning measurements in both uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) are described herein. A user equipment (UE) may generate a UE capability information message indicating one or more signal types that the UE can process for DL positioning measurements and/or that the UE can send for UL positioning measurements. The one or more signal types so indicated may include signals not traditionally used for positioning measurements. The UE may send, to the base station, the UE capability information message. The wireless communications system may then configure the base station and/or the UE to use such signal types with one or more positioning methods. In some embodiments, the base station may also indicate to the UE a subset of signals of an indicated type which should be processed for DL measurements/sent for UL measurements.

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