Location configuration information

• US 9,894,635 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2013
• Issued: 02/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Provenance Asset Group LLC
• Inventors: Loureiro, Alexandre Jose Figueiredo, Abinader, Jr., Fuad Mousse, Amorim, Rafhael, Rowse, Graham
• Primary Examiner(s): Beamer, Temica M
• Application Number:
  US14/902,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20160174186A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,659 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561, 4554562, 4554563, 4554566
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A location configuration information response (250) comprises a single frame of data. The response includes a data field having a length equal to the length indicated in the length field and including data indicating yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values of the subject. A location configuration information request (249) comprises a single frame of data. The request includes a data field indicating an orientation request.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

storing in memory of an apparatus a location configuration information response that is one of received from or for transmission to another apparatus over a wireless connection, the location configuration response comprising a single frame of data and including;

a measurement type field including data indicating a location of a subject,

a latitude field including data indicating a latitude in degrees of the subject,

a longitude field including data indicating a longitude in degrees of the subject,

an altitude field including data indicating an altitude,

a subelement comprising;

a subelement identifier field including data indicating that the subelement is an orientation response subelement,

a length field including data indicating a length of a data field, and

a data field having a length equal to the length indicated in the length field and including data indicating yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values of the subject,

wherein the data field includes data indicating a resolution of at least one of the yaw orientation parameter values, the pitch orientation parameter values or the roll orientation parameter values of the subject,

and wherein the yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values are from yaw, pitch and roll measurements taken by an orientation detector of a mobile wireless device,

the method further comprising one of;

receiving the location configuration information response from the other apparatus over a wireless connection prior to storing the location configuration information response, or

transmitting the location configuration information response to the other apparatus over a wireless connection,

wherein the other apparatus from which the location configuration information response is received comprises a mobile wireless device, and wherein the other apparatus to which the location configuration information response is transmitted comprises one of a mobile wireless device or a wireless access point.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the frame of data is a radio measurement response action frame.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data field includes data indicating whether the yaw orientation parameter values and/or the pitch orientation parameter values and/or the roll orientation parameter values of the subject are absolute or relative values.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data field includes data indicating that the yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values of the subject are values relative to reference planes of a body of the subject.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data field includes data indicating that the yaw orientation parameter values and/or the pitch orientation parameter values and/or the roll orientation parameter values of the subject are relative to a plane defined as intersecting a location of the subject and a location of another device.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, comprising measuring yaw, pitch and roll of the subject to provide the data indicating yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the apparatus comprises one of a mobile wireless device or an access point when receiving the location configuration information response from the other apparatus.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the apparatus comprises a mobile wireless device when transmitting the location configuration information response to the other apparatus.

9. An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, at least one memory, and computer-readable code stored on the at least one memory, the at least one memory and the computer-readable program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:

store in memory of the apparatus a location configuration information request that is one of received from or for transmission to another apparatus over a wireless connection, the location configuration request comprising a single frame of data and including;

a location subject field including data indicating a class of location of a subject,

a latitude request resolution field including data indicating a number of valid most significant bits requested for the fixed-point value of latitude in degrees,

a longitude request resolution field including data indicating a number of valid most significant bits requested for the fixed-point value of longitude in degrees,

an altitude request resolution field including data indicating a number of valid most significant bits requested for the altitude,

an orientation request subelement configured to request at least yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values, the orientation request subelement comprising;

a subelement identifier field including data indicating that the subelement is an orientation request subelement,

a length field including data indicating a length of a data field, and

a data field having a length equal to the length indicated in the length field and including data indicating an orientation request,

and wherein the yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values are from yaw, pitch and roll measurements taken by an orientation detector of a mobile wireless device,

the at least one memory and the computer-readable program code being further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to;

receive the location configuration information request from the other apparatus over a wireless connection prior to storing the location configuration information response, or

transmit the location configuration information request to the other apparatus over a wireless connection,

wherein the other apparatus from which the location configuration information request is received comprises one of a mobile wireless device or a wireless access point, and wherein the other apparatus to which the location configuration information request is transmitted comprises a mobile wireless device.

10. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the frame of data is a radio measurement request action frame.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the information indicating the orientation request comprises information identifying whether absolute or relative orientation values are requested.

12. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the apparatus comprises a mobile wireless device when the at least one memory and the computer-readable program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:

receive the location configuration information request from the other apparatus.

13. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the apparatus comprises one of a mobile wireless device or an access point when the at least one memory and the computer-readable program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:

transmit the location configuration information request to the other apparatus.

14. An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, at least one memory, and computer-readable code stored on the at least one memory, the at least one memory and the computer-readable program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:

store in memory of the apparatus a location configuration information response that is one of received from or for transmission to another apparatus over a wireless connection, the location configuration response comprising a single frame of data and including;

a measurement type field including data indicating a location of a subject,

a latitude field including data indicating a latitude in degrees of the subject,

a longitude field including data indicating a longitude in degrees of the subject,

an altitude field including data indicating an altitude,

a subelement comprising;

a subelement identifier field including data indicating that the subelement is an orientation response subelement,

a length field including data indicating a length of a data field, and

a data field having a length equal to the length indicated in the length field and including data indicating yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values of the subject, wherein the data field includes data indicating a resolution of the yaw orientation parameter values and/or the pitch orientation parameter values and/or the roll orientation parameter values of the subject,

and wherein the yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values are from yaw, pitch and roll measurements taken by an orientation detector of a mobile wireless device,

the at least one memory and the computer-readable program code being further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to;

receive the location configuration information response from the other apparatus over a wireless connection prior to storing the location configuration information response, or

transmit the location configuration information response to the other apparatus over a wireless connection,

wherein the other apparatus from which the location configuration information response is received comprises a mobile wireless device, and wherein the other apparatus to which the location configuration information response is transmitted comprises one of a mobile wireless device or a wireless access point.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the frame of data is a radio measurement response action frame.

16. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the at least one memory and the computer-readable program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to measure yaw, pitch and roll of the subject to provide the data indicating yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the apparatus comprises one of a mobile wireless device or an access point when the at least one memory and the computer-readable program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive the location configuration information response from the other apparatus.

18. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the apparatus comprises a mobile wireless device when the at least one memory and the computer-readable program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to transmit the location configuration information response to the other apparatus.

19. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the data field includes at least one of:

data indicating whether at least one of the yaw orientation parameter values, the pitch orientation parameter values or the roll orientation parameter values of the subject are absolute or relative values;

data indicating that the yaw, pitch and roll orientation parameter values of the subject are values relative to reference planes of a body of the subject;

or

data indicating that at least one of the yaw orientation parameter values, the pitch orientation parameter values or the roll orientation parameter values of the subject are relative to a plane defined as intersecting a location of the subject and a location of another device.