US 12,294,969 B2
Beam selection during downlink positioning
Ryan Keating, Chicago, IL (US); Tao Tao, Shanghai (CN); Daejung Yoon, Massy (FR); Stephan Saur, Stuttgart (DE); and Wolfgang Zirwas, Munich (DE)
Assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 17/637,660
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Aug. 26, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/102597
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 23, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/035484, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0322274 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 64/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 64/00 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal device comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one non-transitory memory including computer program codes;
the at least one memory and the computer program codes are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the terminal device to:
obtain assistance information indicating one or more target transmitting beams towards a neighbor network device, the assistance information being associated with a group of terminal devices to which the terminal device belongs, the group of terminal devices determined in response to a request for downlink positioning; and
determine, based on the information, the one or more target transmitting beams to facilitate downlink positioning,
wherein the terminal device is an anchor terminal device in the group of terminal devices, and wherein the terminal device is caused to determine the one or more target transmitting beams with:
receiving an indication to perform a measurement on a set of transmitting beams of the neighboring network device; and
determining the one or more target transmitting beams based on a result of the measurement.