Base station configured to provide distance filtering
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorFabian Wiacek
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Abstract
A base station may be configured to support distance filtering. When the distance filtering is on, a base station may, when it receives a service request from a device, determine from timing information in the service request at least a distance to the device, then determine a filtering sub-area for the device based on the distance; and to apply one or more filtering rules defined for the filtering sub-area to determine how to process the service request.
Claims21
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
- detect that a distance filtering is on;
- determine, from timing information in a service request received from a device, at least a distance to the device;
- identify a filtering sub-area for the device based on the distance, wherein the filtering sub-area is associated with one or more filtering rules;
- and
- apply the one or more filtering rules associated with the filtering sub-area to determine how to process the service request.
A method comprising:
- detecting that a distance filtering is on;
- determining from timing information in a service request received from a device at least a distance to the device;
- identifying a filtering sub-area for the device based on the distance, wherein the filtering sub-area is associated with one or more filtering rules;
- and
- applying the one or more filtering rules associated with the filtering sub-area to determine how to process the service request.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon for performing, in response to a distance filtering being on, at least the following:
- determining from timing information in a service request received from a device at least a distance to the device;
- identifying a filtering sub-area for the device based on the distance, wherein the filtering sub-area is associated with one or more filtering rules;
- and
- applying the one or more filtering rules associated with the filtering sub-area to determine how to process the service request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.