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Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 19, 2012
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Per Enge, San Jose, CA (US);

Lionel Jacques Garin, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/10 (2006.01); G01S 5/14 (2006.01); G01S 13/87 (2006.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); G01S 11/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/14 (2013.01); G01S 13/876 (2013.01); G01S 13/878 (2013.01); H04L 27/2663 (2013.01); H04L 27/2672 (2013.01); G01S 11/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, apparatus and methods for determining a set of ranges from selected subcarriers of an OFDM signal sent between a receiver (e.g., first transceiver or a local receiver of a local unit at a first location) and a transmitter (e.g., second transceiver or remote transmitter of a remote unit at a second location) are presented. The set of ranges is ambiguous as to the correct range. Each range in this set of ambiguous ranges represents a possible range between the transmitter and the receiver. Range ambiguities may be resolved by using additional subcarriers from the OFDM signal and/or using a last know position of a receiver and/or finding ranges to two, three or more transmitters. The range may be used with other ranges to find a location estimate of the receiver.


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