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US 12,772,194 B2Granted
Method, apparatus and computer program
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsSankaran Balasubramaniam, Anna Pantelidou
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Abstract
There is provided an apparatus comprising means for determining, by the apparatus, that position information of a user equipment is needed for one or more functions to be performed at the apparatus; and means for triggering a location procedure for obtaining positioning information of the user equipment, in response to the determining that position information of the user equipment is needed.
Claims1
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
- receiving positioning capability information of a user equipment (UE) without having sent a request, the positioning capability information of the UE comprising information stored in a table, the table comprising the following information:
- Positioning
- UE
- Proposed
- LMF Based
- Method
- Based
- Procedure
- UE Assisted
- UL-NR-ECID
- NA
- NA
- NA
- DL-NR-ECID
- NA
- NA
- Supported
- UL-AoA
- NA
- NA
- NA
- UL-ToA
- NA
- NA
- NA
- DL-AoD
- Supported
- NG RAN node
- Supported
- requests UE
- for location
- DL-ToA
- Supported
- NG RAN node
- Supported
- requests UE
- for location
- MC-RTT
- NA
- NA
- Supported
- LMF Based
- Positioning
- Proposed
- NG RAN
- Proposed
- Method
- Procedure
- node Assisted
- Procedure
- UL-NR-ECID
- NA
- Supported
- NG RAN node
- requests AMF/LMF
- for location along
- with assistance data
- DL-NR-ECID
- NG RAN
- NA
- NA
- node requests
- AMF/LMF
- for location
- UL-AoA
- NA
- Supported
- NG RAN node
- requests AMF/LMF
- for location along
- with assistance data
- UL-ToA
- NA
- Supported
- NG RAN node
- requests AMF/LMF
- for location along
- with assistance data
- DL-AoD
- NG RAN
- NA
- NA
- node requests
- AMF/LMF
- for location
- DL-ToA
- NG RAN
- NA
- NA
- node requests
- AMF/LMF
- for location
- MC-RTT
- Supported
- NG RAN node
- requests AMF/LMF
- for location along
- with assistance data
- wherein LMF is location management function, AMF is access and mobility management function, UL-NR-ECID is uplink NR enhanced cell ID, DL-NR-ECID is downlink enhanced cell ID, UL-AoA is uplink angle of arrival, UL-ToA is uplink time of arrival, DL-AoD is downlink angle of departure, DL-ToA is downlink time of arrival, and MC-RTT is multi-cell round-trip-time;
- receiving, from the AMF, during a set-up procedure of the UE, a routing ID of the LMF;
- receiving a new routing ID based on an LMF reselection for the UE;
- determining, by the apparatus, that position information of the UE is needed for a machine learning function configured to perform energy saving, mobility optimization, and load balancing, to be performed at the apparatus;
- checking the positioning capability information of the UE, in response to the determining that position information of the UE is needed;
- selecting a location procedure from a plurality of location procedures stored in the table;
- triggering the location procedure for obtaining positioning information of the UE, in response to the determining that position information of the UE is needed, wherein the triggering the location procedure is performed in a manner dependent on the positioning capability information;
- acting as a Location Control Session Client;
- and
- sending a request to a core network entity for the positioning information of the user equipment, wherein the request to the core network comprises a Location Control Session Quality of Service threshold values for accuracy of location and for latency.
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