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US 9,807,815 B2Granted
Apparatus, system and method of simultaneous connectivity to location origin transceivers
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsYaron Alpert, Gil Zukerman
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Abstract
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of simultaneous connectivity to location origin transceivers. For example, a transceiver may be configured to simultaneously maintain a plurality of simultaneous Media-Access-Control (MAC) layer connections with a plurality of location origin beacon transceivers (LOBTs), and to communicate wireless communication signals with the plurality of LOBTs via the plurality of simultaneous MAC-layer connections.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one transceiver to simultaneously maintain a plurality of simultaneous Media-Access-Control (MAC) layer connections with a plurality of location origin beacon transceivers (LOBTs), said transceiver to communicate wireless communication signals of a plurality of Time of Flight (ToF) measurement exchanges with said plurality of LOBTs via said plurality of simultaneous MAC-layer connections, and to determine a plurality of location-related measurements based on the plurality of Time of Flight (ToF) measurement exchanges with said plurality of LOBTs, said transceiver is to establish a first MAC-layer connection with a first LOBT and to establish a second MAC-layer connection with a second LOBT, while the first MAC-layer connection with the first LOBT is still active;
- said transceiver is to transmit a first connectivity request to said first LOBT;
- said transceiver is to receive a first connectivity request acknowledgement from said first LOBT, in response to said first connectivity request;
- said transceiver is to transmit a second connectivity request to said second LOBT, after receiving said first connectivity request acknowledgement from said first LOBT;
- said transceiver is to receive a second connectivity request acknowledgement from said second LOBT, in response to said second connectivity request, wherein after receiving said first and second connectivity request acknowledgements said transceiver is to exchange with the first LOBT wireless communication signals of a first ToF measurement exchange of said plurality of ToF measurement exchanges and to exchange with the second LOBT wireless communication signals of a second ToF measurement exchange of said plurality of ToF measurement exchanges;
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- a Location Calculation Entity (LCE) to receive said plurality of location-related measurements from said transceiver, and to determine a location of said apparatus based on said plurality of location-related measurements.
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A system comprising:
- a server comprising:
- one or more antennas;
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- at least one transceiver to receive from a mobile device a simultaneous-connectivity request identifying at least first and second location origin beacon transceivers (LOBTs) to be simultaneously connected to said mobile device, to establish a first connection between said first LOBT and said mobile device, to establish a second connection between said second LOBT and said mobile device, while said first connection is active, and to acknowledge to the mobile device the establishment of said first and second connections, said transceiver is to establish said first connection by transmitting to said first LOBT a first connectivity request identifying said mobile device and receiving a first connectivity request acknowledgement from said first LOBT, in response to said first connectivity request;
- said transceiver is to establish said second connection by transmitting to said second LOBT a second connectivity request identifying said mobile device and receiving a second connectivity request acknowledgement from said second LOBT, in response to said second connectivity request;
- said transceiver is to receive from said mobile device location information, which is based on Time of Flight (ToF) communications exchanged between said mobile device and said first and second LOBTs, and to estimate a location of said mobile device based on said location information, the location information comprising a first ToF measurement based on a first exchange of ToF messages over the first connection between the mobile device and the first LOBT and a second ToF measurement based on a second exchange of ToF messages over the second connection between the mobile device and the second LOBT.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.