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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiaoxin Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Ning Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Carlos Horacio Aldana, Mountain View, CA (US);
Youhan Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Praveen Dua, Cupertino, CA (US);
Meghna Agrawal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A ranging operation between a first wireless device and a second wireless may be performed by: sending, to the second wireless device, a data frame including a request for the second wireless device to report its actual SIFS duration to the first wireless device; determining a time of departure (TOD) of the data frame; receiving, from the second wireless device, a response frame including SIFS information indicative of the actual SIFS duration of the second wireless device; determining a time of arrival (TOA) of the response frame; and determining a round trip time (RTT) of the data frame and the response frame using the TOD of the data frame, the TOA of the response frame, and the actual SIFS duration of the second wireless device.