User equipment indoor/outdoor indication
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsHamed Pezeshki, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo
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Abstract
A method of indicating user equipment (UE) status, the method comprising: determining, at the UE based on at least one of sensor output information of the UE or one or more incoming wireless signals to the UE, an indoor/outdoor status of the UE; transmit, via at least one transmitter, an indoor/outdoor indication message to a network entity, wherein the indoor/outdoor indication message reports the indoor/outdoor status of the UE to the network entity, and the network entity is a base station, or a server, or both; receiving, via at least one receiver, a control information message from the network entity in response to the indoor/outdoor indication message; and changing operation of the UE based on the control information message.
Claims20
A user equipment (UE) comprising:
- at least one transmitter;
- at least one of:
- at least one receiver configured to receive incoming wireless signals or at least one sensor configured to provide sensor output information;
- at least one memory;
- and
- at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one transmitter, to the at least one of the at least one receiver or the at least one sensor, and to the at least
- one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
- determine, based on at least one of the sensor output information or one or more of the incoming wireless signals, an indoor or outdoor status of the UE;
- transmit, via the at least one transmitter, an indoor or outdoor indication
- message to a network entity, wherein
- the indoor or outdoor indication message reports the indoor or outdoor status of the UE to the network entity, and
- the network entity is a base station, or a server, or both;
- receive, via the at least one receiver, a control information message from the network entity in response to the indoor or outdoor indication message;
- and
- change operation of the UE based on the control information message.
A method of indicating user equipment (UE) status, the method comprising:
- determining, at the UE based on at least one of sensor output information of the UE or one or more incoming wireless signals to the UE, an indoor or outdoor status of the UE;
- transmit, via at least one transmitter, an indoor or outdoor indication message to a network entity, wherein
- the indoor or outdoor indication message reports the indoor or outdoor status of the UE to the network entity, and
- the network entity is a base station, or a server, or both;
- receiving, via at least one receiver, a control information message from the
- network entity in response to the indoor or outdoor indication message;
- and
- changing operation of the UE based on the control information message.
A user equipment (UE) comprising:
- means for determining, based on at least one of sensor output information or one or more incoming wireless signals, an indoor or outdoor status of the UE;
- means for reporting an indoor or outdoor indication of the indoor or outdoor status of the UE to a network entity, wherein the network entity is a base station, or a server, or both;
- means for receiving a control information message from the network entity in response to the indoor or outdoor indication;
- and
- means for changing operation of the UE based on the control information message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.