E-OTD augmentation to U-TDOA location system
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1. A method of locating a mobile appliance in a network overlay geolocation system having a plurality of base stations and a second plurality of wireless location sensors comprising:
- measuring the TOA of a reverse signal from the mobile appliance at one or more of the second plurality of wireless location sensors to create TDOA measurements;
synchronizing the TDOA measurements of the reverse signal to a common time base and;
measuring the TOA of a forward channel from one or more of the plurality of base stations at the mobile appliance to create E-OTD measurements; and
, determining a location estimate based on the TDOA measurements of the reverse signal and the TOA measurements of the forward channel.
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Abstract
A method for use in a wireless communication system with a network overlay geolocation system having a sparse deployment network in which base stations of the wireless communication system may or may not have a co-located wireless location sensor (WLS). The method uses U-TDOA measurements on the uplink (reverse) signal and E-OTD measurements on the downlink (forward) signals to estimate a location for a mobile appliance.
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1. A method of locating a mobile appliance in a network overlay geolocation system having a plurality of base stations and a second plurality of wireless location sensors comprising:
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measuring the TOA of a reverse signal from the mobile appliance at one or more of the second plurality of wireless location sensors to create TDOA measurements;
synchronizing the TDOA measurements of the reverse signal to a common time base and;
measuring the TOA of a forward channel from one or more of the plurality of base stations at the mobile appliance to create E-OTD measurements; and
,determining a location estimate based on the TDOA measurements of the reverse signal and the TOA measurements of the forward channel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. In a sparse geo-location network overlay system having a plurality of base stations and at least two wireless location sensors, wherein uplink signals are received by the at least two wireless location sensors and downlink signals are received by a mobile appliance, a method of locating the mobile appliance comprising:
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synchronizing the time of arrival of the uplink signal at the at least two wireless location sensors to a common clock;
synchronizing the time of arrival of a downlink signal from one or more of the plurality of base stations at the mobile appliance to a second common clock;
determining a location estimate based on the synchronized time of arrival of the downlink signal and the synchronized time of arrivals of the uplink signals. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method for estimating the location of a mobile appliance operating in a wireless communication system comprising:
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measuring a first attribute of an uplink signal from the mobile appliance received at a plurality of wireless location sensors;
determining a location estimate based at least in part on the attribute of the uplink signal;
determining a location accuracy of the location estimate;
comparing the location accuracy to a predetermined threshold;
if the location accuracy is less that the predetermined threshold;
measuring second attributes of downlink signals from a plurality of base stations at the mobile appliance;
determining a second location estimate based at least in part on the second attributes of the downlink signals;
determining a second location accuracy of the second location estimate;
comparing the second location accuracy to the predetermined threshold;
if the second location accuracy is less than the predetermined threshold;
determining a third location estimate based at least in part on the first attribute and the second attribute. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. In a wireless communication system having a sparse deployment of wireless location sensors wherein one or more base stations of the wireless communication system are not associated with a co-located wireless location sensor and wherein a geographic area served by the wireless communication system has a no location area, a method of determining the location of a mobile appliance comprising:
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determining if the mobile appliance is in the no location area, and;
using E-OTD measurements from the forward link and TOA measurements from the reverse link to estimate the location of the mobile appliance. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39)
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