Method and apparatus for determining remote unit location in a communication system
CA 2278764 C · Owner: Sanders, Stephen H. Iii · Inventors: Sanders, Stephen H. Iii; Bruckert, Eugene J.
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The location of a remote unit (113) within a wireless communication system (100) is determined by all base stations (101) within the wireless communication system (100) initiating a first page (wide-area location page) that is broadcast to the remote unit (113) over a paging channel. The serving and neighbor base stations are determined from the remote unit's (113) response to the wide-area location page and those base stations are , instructed to tune receiving elements to obtain data that will be transmitted by the remote unit (113) during location. A second message (Location Page Message) is then broadcast to the remote unit (113) via the serving base station (101). The Location …
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- Filed November 25, 1997 and granted August 5, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 25, 2017.
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