Enhanced mobile station positioning in a wireless communication network
First Claim
1. A method of facilitating mobile station operations in a wireless communication network, the method comprising:
- receiving a request at the mobile station to perform a designated task;
determining whether a current operating mode of the mobile station offers sufficient idle time to perform the designated task within a desired time by determining whether available background processing time is sufficient to complete the designated task before expiration of the desired time, the available background processing time being a cumulative time comprising intervals between ongoing transmit and receive operations in combination with currently designated communication idle times; and
requesting additional idle time from the wireless communication network if sufficient idle time is not available at the mobile station.
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Abstract
An approach to facilitating positioning operations or other designated tasks performed by mobile stations within a wireless communication network enables individual mobile stations to request “free” or idle time if the mobile station'"'"'s current operations do not provide sufficient background time to perform the required task. For example, the mobile station might be commanded to perform a positioning computation within a required time limit. If its background processing time is insufficient, the mobile station requests additional idle time from the network, which, if allocated by the network, is used by the mobile station to complete the required processing task. In an exemplary application, a GPRS-based network allocates additional “idle” blocks into the time-multiplexed multiframe structures supporting packet data communications with the mobile station. Here, the mobile station indicates the idle time needed, and the network determines how best to distribute the required idle blocks over one or more forthcoming multiframes.
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1. A method of facilitating mobile station operations in a wireless communication network, the method comprising:
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receiving a request at the mobile station to perform a designated task; determining whether a current operating mode of the mobile station offers sufficient idle time to perform the designated task within a desired time by determining whether available background processing time is sufficient to complete the designated task before expiration of the desired time, the available background processing time being a cumulative time comprising intervals between ongoing transmit and receive operations in combination with currently designated communication idle times; and requesting additional idle time from the wireless communication network if sufficient idle time is not available at the mobile station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of facilitating mobile station operations in a wireless communication network, the method comprising:
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sending a command to a GPRS terminal to perform a designated task; receiving, at a GPRS network, an idle time request from the GPRS terminal for one or more units of idle time within one or more forthcoming TDMA frames used for communication between the GPRS terminal and the GPRS network, wherein the TDMA frames comprise repeating multiframes, each multiframe comprising a number of communication frames and a default number of idle frames; determining whether to grant the idle time request; and sending a response to the GPRS terminal identifying one or more selected radio blocks in one or more forthcoming 52-multiframes on a packet data channel (PDCH) to be used as additional idle time by the GPRS terminal for performing the designated task if the idle time request is granted. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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