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Communication device and method for execution of at least one positioning function in a communication network

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsPeter C. Karlsson, Magnus Persson, Kåre Agardh

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a communication device and to a method arranged to execute at least one positioning function in a communication network. According to the present invention, a positioning function execution time is determined, at which a transmission medium will be used for executing position transmissions, according to a positioning function execution time information. Further, the at least one positioning function is executed at the determined positioning function execution time by executing the at least one positioning function transmission via the transmission medium. The present invention relates also to a correspondingly arranged computer program product and to a correspondingly arranged computer-readable recording medium.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A communication device arranged to execute at least one positioning function in a communication network, the communication device comprising:

a processor that:
detects and maps recurring transmission activities over a transmission medium;
and
executes an application to determine a positioning function execution time and schedule the communication device to transmit at least one position transmission via the transmission medium at the positioning function execution time, the positioning function execution time determined according to a positioning function execution time information that comprises information regarding recurring transmission times and the positioning function execution time is a time at which the transmission medium has not been used for a predetermined time period and does not coincide with a recurring transmission of the recurring transmission activities, wherein the transmission medium is considered as being not used if a positioning function transmission priority is higher than a priority of each of at least one further transmission waiting for a transmission via the transmission medium, and each the positioning function transmission priority and the priority of each of the at least one further transmission is specified according to a corresponding transmission medium access category of at least two transmission medium access categories, each of the at least two transmission medium access categories classifying particular transmission services, wherein each transmission service is associated with one transmission medium access category only, and each transmission medium access category allocating at least one corresponding priority, wherein each priority is associated with one transmission medium access category only;
and
a transmitter that transmits the at least one positioning function transmission via the transmission medium upon arrival of the positioning function execution time.

3 more elements

A method for execution of at least one positioning function in a communication network, said method comprising:

detecting and mapping recurring transmission activities over a transmission medium;
determining a positioning function execution time and scheduling the communication device to transmit at least one position transmission via the transmission medium at the positioning function execution time, the positioning function execution time determined according to a positioning function execution time information that comprises information regarding recurring transmission times and the positioning function execution time is a time at which the transmission medium has not been used for a predetermined time period and does not coincide with a recurring transmission of the recurring transmission activities, wherein the transmission medium is considered as being not used if a positioning function transmission priority is higher than a priority of each of at least one further transmission waiting for a transmission via the transmission medium, and each the positioning function transmission priority and the priority of each of the at least one further transmission is specified according to a corresponding transmission medium access category of at least two transmission medium access categories, each of the at least two transmission medium access categories classifying particular transmission services, wherein each transmission service is associated with one transmission medium access category only, and each transmission medium access category allocating at least one corresponding priority, wherein each priority is associated with one transmission medium access category only;
and
executing the at least one positioning function to transmit the at least one positioning function transmission via the transmission medium upon arrival of the positioning function execution time.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/085,219Filed 17 Mar 2016
Published: US 2019/0082415 A114 Mar 2019
Granted: 22 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04W 64/003
Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management: locating network equipment
H04L 5/0051
Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver: of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
H04W 64/00
Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes
H04W 72/52
Allocation or scheduling criteria for wireless resources: based on load

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US 2019/0082415 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 Mar 2019
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