US 12,245,139 B2
Apparatus and method for support of location management functionality in a radio access network
Yi Guo, Shanghai (CN); Sudeep Palat, Cheltenham (GB); and Alexey Khoryaev, Nizhny Novgorod (RU)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/430,160
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 8, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/017378
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 11, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/167615, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/804,485, filed on Feb. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0150809 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 48/14 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/18 (2013.01) [H04W 8/24 (2013.01); H04W 48/14 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for selecting a Location Management Function (LMF) in a wireless communication network, comprising:
receiving, by a next generation Radio Access Network (NG-RAN), a capability from a user equipment (UE), the capability indicating whether the UE is capable of supporting LMF in Radio Access Network (RAN);
notifying an access and mobility management function (AMF) whether the UE is capable of supporting LMF in RAN;
receiving an LMF selection from the AMF based on the notifying; and
transmitting a response to the UE based on the received LMF selection, the response indicating whether a positioning procedure to be carried out by the UE is based on LMF in RAN.