US 12,477,510 B2
Method and apparatus for efficient positioning
Oana-Elena Barbu, Aalborg (DK); and Diomidis Michalopoulos, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 18/266,147
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Nov. 18, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/082147
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 8, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/128315, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 23, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 20206295 (FI), filed on Dec. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0040542 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 68/00 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0051 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform:
listening and receiving a positioning measurement sidelink broadcast or multicast transmitted with at least one reference user equipment;
listening and receiving a positioning measurement request from a location server, wherein the positioning measurement request comprises a reduced list of transmission points providing positioning reference signals to be measured, said reduced list containing a subset of transmission points to be measured with respect to a list that is used for measurement with the reference user equipment;
performing the measurement of positioning reference signals from the transmission points being listed in the reduced list of transmission points, where a set of measured positioning reference signals is adjusted based on the received positioning measurement sidelink;
generating a report comprising at least one of the positioning reference signals measured or from the received positioning measurement sidelink broadcast or multicast; and
transmitting the report to the location server.