US 12,488,545 B2
Terminal device, application server, receiving method, and transmitting method
Hiroto Otsuki, Tokyo (JP); and Daisuke Sasaki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/331,195.
Application 18/331,195 is a continuation of application No. 17/764,983, granted, now 11,836,876, previously published as PCT/JP2020/047059, filed on Dec. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-232069 (JP), filed on Dec. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0316684 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 24/10 (2009.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); H04L 67/131 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 19/006 (2013.01) [H04L 67/131 (2022.05)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A Next Generation Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) node configured to support New Radio Positioning Protocol A (NRPPa), the NG-RAN node comprising:
a network interface configured to communicate with a Location Management Function (LMF) node; and
circuitry configured to
receive, from the LMF, an enhanced cell ID (E-CID) MEASUREMENT INITIATION REQUEST message including
a Report Characteristics Information Element (IE); and
a Measurement Quantities Item IE corresponding to a request for the NG-RAN node to report first information indicating Synchronization Signal (SS)/Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) block index (SSB index) for location of a User Equipment (UE); and
send, to the LMF, E-CID MEASUREMENT INITIATION RESPONSE message containing the first information indicating the SSB index, in a case that the received Report Characteristics IE is set to OnDemand, or
send, to the LMF, E-CID MEASUREMENT REPORT message containing the first information indicating the SSB index, in a case that the received Report Characteristics IE is set to Periodic.