US 11,895,613 B2
Positioning with multiple access points
Joerg Schaepperle, Stuttgart (DE); Luca Rose, Orsay (FR); and Jakob Hoydis, Paris (FR)
Assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 17/286,625
Filed by NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Oct. 19, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/078762
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/078570, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0368470 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 64/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 64/00 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method executed by an access point of a plurality of access points which provide access for user equipment to a communication network, the method comprising:
acquiring a result of a measurement related to a position of a user equipment, wherein the result comprises an angle of arrival of signals transmitted between the user equipment and the access point;
acquiring additional information comprising:
an evaluation of the result of the measurement, wherein the evaluation comprises a quality of the measurement comprising at least one item of the following group:
a reliability of the measurement,
a likelihood of the measurement,
a quality index of the measurement, and
a signal to noise ratio on a channel via which the signals transmitted between the user equipment and the access point are received; and
a reference towards which the measurement was done, wherein the reference comprises at least one of a reference direction to which the angle of arrival was measured and an orientation of an antenna array; and
transmitting, to a central node, in at least one message, the result of the measurement and the additional information, wherein the additional information is to be used by the central node for combining the result of the measurement related to the position of the user equipment, which have been acquired by the plurality of access points.