Device Locationing Using Wireless Communication

摘要

A communication network of the present disclosure can determine one or more locations of communication devices within its geographic coverage area based upon one or more communication signals that are communicated within the communication network and/or between the communication network and another communication network. The communication devices within the communication network can be implemented to utilize, for example, an implicit beamforming technique to receive the one or more communication signals over multiple signal pathways. The communication devices can determine one or more characteristics of these various communication signals that are received over the multiple signal pathways to assist in determining the one or more locations. Thereafter, the communication devices can determine one or more properties of the various communication signals based upon the one or more characteristics to determine the one or more locations.

主权项

1. A wireless access point in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the wireless access point, comprising:
a plurality of receiving modules configured to determine a plurality of characteristics of a communication signal that is provided by a mobile communication device over different signal pathways from among a plurality of signal pathways; and a processing module configured to calculate a property of the communication signal based upon the plurality of characteristics.