Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Patent
1997-01-08
2000-02-15
Bost, Dwayne D.
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
455457, 455560, H04Q 720
Patent
active
060263040
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for location finding in a wireless communication system uses multipath signals in order to accurately determine a transmitter's location. Direct path and multipath signals from a mobile transmitter [74] arrive at an antenna array [80, 82, 84] of a base station receiver [76]. The base station determines signal signature from a subspace of an array covariance matrix. The signature is compared to a database of calibrated signal signatures and corresponding locations, and a location whose calibrated signature best matches the measured signature is selected as the most likely transmitter location. The database of calibrated signal signatures and corresponding locations is generated by a calibration procedure in which a phone [74] transmits location data derived from a GPS receiver [88] and GPS satellites [90, 92, 94] to the base station [76] which records the location information together with the signal signature of the transmitter [74]. The location information can be used to increase the performance of a cellular telephone network and provide useful services to cellular telephone customers.
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Hilsenrath Oliver
Wax Mati
Bost Dwayne D.
Scott, Jr. Linwood C.
U.S. Wireless Corporation
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