Apparatus, system and method of performing a fine time measurement (FTM) procedure with a responder station
AssigneeIntel IP Corporation
InventorItai Steiner
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Abstract
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of performing a Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) procedure with a responder station. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a responder station to transmit an information element including FTM availability information, the FTM availability information including an indication of a plurality of channels and, for a channel of the plurality of channels, one or more FTM availability windows; and to be available to perform an FTM procedure on the channel during the FTM availability windows corresponding to the channel.
Claims25
An apparatus comprising logic and circuitry configured to cause a first responder station to:
- process a request from a second responder station to perform a Fine Time Measurement (FTM) procedure with the first responder station, the request comprising an indication of a plurality of first channels;
- transmit to the second responder station a response comprising an indication of a plurality of second channels and FTM availability information, the FTM availability information comprising, for a channel of the plurality of second channels, one or more FTM availability windows;
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- be available to perform the FTM procedure with the second responder station over the plurality of second channels according to the FTM availability information.
A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, enable the at least one computer processor to implement one or more operations at a first responder station, the operations comprising:
- processing a request from a second responder station to perform a Fine Time Measurement (FTM) procedure with the first responder station, the request comprising an indication of a plurality of first channels;
- transmitting to the second responder station a response comprising an indication of a plurality of second channels and FTM availability information, the FTM availability information comprising, for a channel of the plurality of second channels, one or more FTM availability windows;
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- being available to perform the FTM procedure with the second responder station over the plurality of second channels according to the FTM availability information.
An apparatus comprising logic and circuitry configured to cause a first responder station to:
- transmit a request to a second responder station to perform a Fine Time Measurement (FTM) procedure with the second responder station, the request comprising an indication of a plurality of first channels;
- process a response from the second responder station, the response comprising an indication of a plurality of second channels and FTM availability information, the FTM availability information comprising, for a channel of the plurality of second channels, one or more FTM availability windows;
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- perform the FTM procedure with the second responder station over two or more of the plurality of second channels according to the FTM availability information.
A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, enable the at least one computer processor to implement one or more operations at a first responder station, the operations comprising:
- transmitting a request to a second responder station to perform a Fine Time Measurement (FTM) procedure with the second responder station, the request comprising an indication of a plurality of first channels;
- processing a response from the second responder station, the response comprising an indication of a plurality of second channels and FTM availability information, the FTM availability information comprising, for a channel of the plurality of second channels, one or more FTM availability windows;
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- performing the FTM procedure with the second responder station over two or more of the plurality of second channels according to the FTM availability information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.