US 12,452,629 B2
Apparatus for determining user position
Alexander Hofmann, Erlangen (DE); Mohammad Alawieh, Erlangen (DE); Leszek Raschkowski, Berlin (DE); Sebastian Kram, Erlangen (DE); and Birendra Ghimire, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V., Munich (DE)
Filed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich (DE)
Filed on May 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/738,298.
Application 17/738,298 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/081076, filed on Nov. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19209250 (EP), filed on Nov. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0264257 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/029 (2018.01); G01S 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 4/029 (2018.02) [G01S 5/0072 (2013.01); G01S 5/009 (2013.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for determining a position of a user device, UE, in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system comprising one or more moving transmission reception points, TRPs, the apparatus comprising:
a communication interface;
one or more memories storing instructions; and
one or more processors, which are coupled to the communication interface and the one or more memories, to execute the instructions stored in the one or more memories to implement operations comprising:
initiating one or more procedures to perform one or more measurements between the UE and one of the moving TRPs, and acquiring one or more measurement results; and
receiving at least one message from the one moving TRP, comprising a position information of the one moving TRP,
wherein the position information comprises a position of the one moving TRP and a time the one moving TRP or the UE performed the one or more measurements,
wherein the apparatus is capable of determining the position of the UE, using the one or more measurement results, the position of the one moving TRP, and the time the one moving TRP or the UE performed the one or more measurements,
wherein the operations further comprise acquiring a position time record, and
wherein the position time record provides the apparatus with a position history for the one moving TRP by providing the position of the one moving TRP and a time corresponding to the position of the one moving TRP, or a position displacement from an initial position of the one moving TRP.