Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090319605 | MOTION STATE INDICATOR FOR LOCATION-BASED SERVICES - A system and method by which an estimate can be provided to a location-based service provider concerning the motion state of a user of a terminal. Motion state information may be used to trigger a particular location-based service at a more desirable moment. The motion state information may also be used to help define the format of information sent to the user's terminal, as well as to define the content of the information that is to be sent to the user terminal. This enables an improved level of control of the distribution of location-based services, as information can be sent at a more optimal time and more relevant information can be sent to the user. | 12-24-2009 |
20110140960 | Preference Lists For Assistance Data Requests in Global Navigation Satellite Systems - Methods and devices may request and provide assistance data from an assistance server to a receiver in a global navigation satellite system. A request for assistance data may include a preference list of navigation models suitable for the requesting receiver. Multiple preference lists for different navigation model types (e.g., orbit model, clock model, almanac model) may be included in a single list and/or data structure, or as multiple lists and/or data structures. An assistance server may receive and process the preference list, for example, by parsing and traversing the ordered list(s) for different navigation model types, in order to provide satellite navigation data to the receiver in accordance with suitable navigation models that are available at both the receiver and the assistance server. | 06-16-2011 |
20110306337 | State-Machine-Based Operation of a Coverage-Model-Related Process - It is disclosed to operate a generating/updating process that comprises generating and/or updating at least one model for a coverage area of a communication node and/or at least one process associated with said generating/updating process in dependence on at least one state of a state machine. | 12-15-2011 |
20110306365 | Screening Terminal Positions at a Terminal - It is disclosed an apparatus, a method and a computer program for determining, at a terminal, whether at least one terminal position associated with a coverage area of a communication node shall be discarded or reported to allow at least one of said coverage area and said communication node to be characterized at least partially based on said at least one reported terminal position. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307428 | Screening Information for a Coverage Model - It is disclosed to determine whether information useable for a generating/updating process that comprises generating and/or updating at least one model for a coverage area of a communication node shall be discarded or made available to said generating/updating process. | 12-15-2011 |
20120028652 | DETERMINING A POSITION OF A TERMINAL - It is disclosed an apparatus, a method and a computer program for determining a position of a terminal. It is checked if an intersection of all areas of a set of areas that are associated with one or more communication nodes and represent and/or limit possible positions of a terminal is potentially non-empty. Each of the areas is associable with a respective bounding box. The intersection is defined to be potentially non-empty if an intersection of all of the bounding boxes would be non-empty. A position of the terminal is determined in dependence on a result of the checking if the intersection of all areas of the set of areas is potentially non-empty. | 02-02-2012 |
20120139790 | OPTIMAL STORAGE SCHEME FOR ACCESS POINT COVERAGE DATA - It is disclosed to determine, as a representation of a set of terminal positions, a polygon that encloses all terminal positions of the set of terminal positions. The terminal positions are positions of one or more terminals within a coverage area of a communication node. | 06-07-2012 |
20130143593 | PROCESSING OBJECTS OF A RADIOMAP DATABASE - It is inter alia disclosed to respectively link at least two objects of a plurality of objects to one or more respective regions of a grid of regions. The at least two objects are respectively related to a respective coverage area representation and/or a respective coverage-providing entity. At least two of the at least two objects are associated with each other based on a finding that both have been linked to at least one same region of the grid of regions. At least one of the at least two associated objects is an object related to a first communication system and at least one other of the at least two associated objects is an object related to a second communication system that is different from and/or operated by another operator than said first communication system. | 06-06-2013 |
20140243012 | SUPPORTING COVERAGE AREA MODELING - A system obtains information on positions stored for a communication node and criteria that are met by the node. The system selects a-priori information on a coverage area size that is stored for nodes meeting the criteria. Different a-priori information is stored for nodes meeting different criteria. The system estimates a value of at least one parameter representing a coverage area of the node based on the information on the positions and the selected a-priori information. The value of the at least one parameter is stored. For generating the a-priori information, the system may extract from a memory information indicating a size of a coverage area for each of a plurality of communication nodes, compute a statistical value based on information indicating a size of a coverage area that is extracted for a plurality of nodes meeting the same criteria, and provide the computed statistical value as a-priori information. | 08-28-2014 |
20140256348 | USING INFORMATION ON NEIGHBOR CELLS OF OTHER NETWORK TYPES AND/OR OTHER OPERATORS FOR MOBILE TERMINAL POSITIONING - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method performed by an apparatus comprises, causing said apparatus at least to perform one of providing and obtaining information on a serving cell that is, at a point of time, serving a mobile terminal and information related to a neighbor cell that is, at least substantially at said point of time, observed by said mobile terminal, wherein said serving cell is a cell of a first communication network, wherein said neighbor cell is a cell of a second communication network, and wherein said first communication network has a type that is different from a type of said second communication network and/or is operated by an operator that is different from an operator of said second communication network. | 09-11-2014 |
20140335894 | COLLECTING POSITIONING REFERENCE DATA - It is inter alia disclosed to obtain or generate a plurality of sets of positioning reference data, at least one set of positioning reference data of the plurality of set of positioning reference data comprising a respective position information obtained or generated based on position-related information from at least one sensor, and comprising a respective signal characteristic representation associated with at least one received signal from at least one wireless coverage providing entity. | 11-13-2014 |
20150017995 | UPDATING OF COVERAGE AREA REPRESENTATIONS FOR A HIERARCHY OF COVERAGE AREAS - It is inter alia disclosed to update or to trigger updating of a second-layer coverage area representation of a second-layer coverage area at least in dependence on a decision whether a first-layer coverage area representation of a first-layer coverage area has changed to an extent that exceeds a pre-defined or determined extent or not. The first-layer coverage area and the second-layer coverage area are part of a hierarchy of coverage areas of a communication system. The second-layer coverage area at least comprises the first-layer coverage area. | 01-15-2015 |
20150050931 | DETERMINING AN IDENTIFICATION OF A CELL - An apparatus receives a plurality of reports from at least one mobile terminal, which is connected to a particular cell of a cellular communication network. Each report includes an identification of a first type of a plurality of cells of the cellular communication network currently observed by the at least one mobile terminal and, associated with each identification of the first type, a result of at least one measurement on signals. The apparatus computes for each identification of the first type, a result of at least one measurement in the plurality of reports. The apparatus then determines, based on the computed sums, one of the identifications of the first type to be an identification of the first type of the particular cell. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050946 | SUPPORTING STORAGE OF DATA - An apparatus determines for each of a plurality of sub-areas of an area an amount of measurement results that are received for the respective sub-area. The apparatus further determines a sub-area, for which the determined amount of measurement results exceeds a reference value. The apparatus further sets up for the determined sub-area a focus grid with a density that is higher than a lowest density of a basic grid assigned to the area. Measurement results received for the determined sub-area may then be stored at least with a mapping to grid points of the focus grid. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050947 | SUPPORTING LOCATION BASED OPERATIONS - An apparatus performs continuous measurements on terrestrial signals transmitted by nodes of a communication network to obtain results of measurements. Furthermore, the apparatus continuously determines a position of the mobile device based on the results of measurements at the mobile device and based on data stored in the mobile device, the data including data on characteristics of nodes of at least one communication network that are based at least partly on results of measurements at a plurality of mobile devices on terrestrial signals transmitted by nodes of the at least one communication network. | 02-19-2015 |