US 6,185,428 B2 · System and method for adaptively modifying base station transceiver resources for time of arrival measurements

Abstract

A system and method that makes more efficient utilization of BTS resources when BTSs are employed in time of arrival (TOA) measurements as is common in mobile positioning operations. A maximum signaling delay is assumed for which BTS resource assignment is delayed by a default time span in the event of an impending TOA measurement thereby allowing the BTS availment of the resources which would otherwise be idle yet assigned and therefore unavailable for other BTS functions during the period of signaling delay. The period of resource assignment delay may be increased or decreased, the actual adaption of the delay dependent on the true signaling delay.

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Dependent claims

A mobile station positioning method for locating a mobile station within a telecommunications system, said method comprising the steps of:

transmitting, from a said base station controller within said telecommunications system, a mobile positioning request message to a plurality of base transceiver stations, one of said plurality of base transceiver stations being a serving base transceiver station in communication with said mobile station, said mobile positioning request message including a resource allocation delay message;
receiving, by the respective base transceiver stations, said mobile positioning request message;
and
delaying, within the respective base transceiver stations, allocation of base transceiver station resources a given time period pursuant to said resource allocation delay message.

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System and method for adaptively modifying base station transceiver resources for time of arrival measurements

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System and method for adaptively modifying base station transceiver resources for time of arrival measurements

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