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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2012
David Damian Bevan, Bishops Storford, GB;
Ilya Averin, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;
Denis Lysyakov, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;
David Damian Bevan, Bishops Storford, GB;
Ilya Averin, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;
Denis Lysyakov, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;
Blackberry Limited, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A method of estimation of a location of a terminal within an area of coverage of a wireless network comprising at least one fixed node. The method comprises estimating the location of the terminal on the basis of at least a comparison between data representing a first metric of a complex frequency response of a radio channel between the terminal and one of the at least one fixed node and data representing a plurality of stored metrics. Each of the plurality of stored metrics being related to one of a plurality of different locations within the network and each stored metric being of a complex frequency response measured between the one of the fixed nodes and the location within the network to which the metric relates.