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Sensing RF environment to determine geographic location of cellular base station

  • US 9,332,463 B2
  • Filed: 12/05/2013
  • Issued: 05/03/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of determining a geographic location of a mobile station, the method comprising:

  • querying, by the mobile station, a serving mobile location center (SMLC) to determine a reference macro-base transceiver station (macro-BTS) and a neighbor macro-BTS of the reference macro-BTS;

    receiving a plurality of beacons at the mobile station including a first beacon transmitted by the reference macro-BTS and a second beacon transmitted by the neighbor macro-BTS;

    determining, by the mobile station, a set of measurement data that includes, for each of the plurality of beacons received at the mobile station, a corresponding measurement data; and

    performing, by the mobile station, location based calculations using the set of measurement data to determine the geographic location of the mobile station.

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