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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US);
Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);
Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hong He, San Jose, CA (US);
Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US);
Manasa Raghavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Qiming Li, Beijing, CN;
Sarma V. Vangala, Campbell, CA (US);
Yang Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A positioning server is configured to determine a set of anchor points to be used in a positioning method for a user equipment, wherein each of the anchor points is associated with a type of anchor point comprising a terrestrial type or a non-terrestrial type, select a subset of the set of anchor points based on the types of the anchor points, select one anchor point from the subset of anchor points as a reference anchor point based on an expected quality of a positioning reference signal (PRS) transmission received from the anchor point, transmit to the UE a PRS configuration for each of the anchor points and indicating to the UE the reference anchor point and instruct each of the anchor points to transmit respective PRSs in accordance with the PRS configuration.
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