Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Reexamination Certificate
2008-08-29
2011-11-29
Corsaro, Nick (Department: 2617)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
C455S404200, C455S440000, C455S422100, C455S067110, C455S449000, C370S310000, C370S328000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08068851
ABSTRACT:
A method for proximity detection in a wireless communication network. A node attempts to determine the proximity of the closest neighboring node by transmitting a ranging request. Other nodes respond, and the first node to receive and respond to the request will have the shortest response time and thus will be the closest node. Exact ranges can be determined by applying Time-Of-Arrival (TOA) techniques to node response times. To further avoid collisions, one or more frames of the response messages can be same, making the multiple responses appear as multi-path. The group of responders can be narrowed and individual groups probed in a search pattern until the single nearest node is known or range of the nearest node is known. The ranging node may then use ordinary unicast mechanisms to probe this node, or begin scanning the groups again, or interleave the two mechanisms as desired.
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Barker Charles R.
Doege Peter B.
Goldberg Keith J.
Strutt Guénael T.
Corsaro Nick
Karpinia Randi L.
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Ngo Chuong A
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