A method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium are provided for determining absolute altitudes of individual floors represented by an indoor map. In the context of a method, location data is obtained representing at least one track of one or more users at least partially in a structure. The location data includes horizontal and vertical location information with the vertical location information representing an absolute altitude. The method also includes obtaining indoor map data representing different floors and indicating structural elements on the floors and determining track sections of the at least one track represented by the location data such that each track section can be assumed to be on a single floor. The method further includes at least partially comparing determined track sections with floors represented by the indoor map data and determining an absolute altitude of at least some of the floors represented by the indoor map data.

Disclosed are techniques for using a channel state information (CSI) report framework to support positioning measurements in a wireless network. More particularly, a base station may identify one or more reference signal resources to be transmitted to a user equipment (UE) for obtaining at least one positioning measurement and configure the reference signal resources to be transmitted at least partially outside a current bandwidth that the base station and the UE are using to communicate data and control information. Accordingly, the base station may transmit, to the UE, a CSI report setting that indicates the positioning measurement to be reported and specifies that the positioning measurement is to be obtained from the configured reference signal resources.

A method of operating a base station includes determining a schedule associated with transmission by the base station of a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) on a plurality of directional beams, the plurality of directional beams having directions corresponding to at least a portion of a plurality of configurable beam directions, the schedule being based on a coordination of the PRS transmission by the base station with PRS transmission on directional beams from at least one other base station; and transmitting the PRS on each of the plurality of directional beams based on the determined schedule.

A user equipment (UE) receives assistance data for positioning that includes relative position information for anchor points, such as base stations and/or sidelink UEs. The relative position information may include, for example, distances or angles between anchor points. The UE performs positioning measurements for reference signals received from the anchor points. The UE performs outlier rejection of the positioning measurements using the relative position information. Positioning measurements selected by the UE using the relative position information are provided to a location server. The location server may perform UE-assisted positioning using the selected position measurements and the actual locations of the anchor points. Accordingly, the outlier rejection of the position measurements may be off loaded from the location server to the UE while maintaining confidentiality of the actual locations of the anchor points.

A mobile information handling system may include, in an embodiment, a wireless network interface; a wireless performance modulator to adjust the performance of the wireless network interface; and a sensor to receive input descriptive of the environment of the mobile information handling system and provide the input to the wireless performance modulator to adjust the performance of the wireless network interface based on information associated with the sensed environment received by the sensor wherein the sensor is a movement sensor to detect the movement of the mobile information handling system so as to determine, with the wireless performance modulator, whether to initiate a roaming process to search for a wireless network to communicatively couple the mobile handling system upon detection of movement above a threshold level.

Technologies directed to device detection and locationing are described. One method includes establishing a first wireless connection between a first wireless device and a second wireless device on a first channel. The first wireless device sends to the second wireless device a first indication that the first wireless device is to operate in an off-channel mode with a third wireless device at a first location a Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) procedure. The first wireless device performs a first FTM process between the first wireless device and the third wireless device. The first device determines first timing data including a signal round trip time (RRT) associated with the first FTM process and determines a first distance between the first wireless device and the third wireless device based on the first timing data. A second location of the first wireless device is determined using the first distance.

A method includes tracking a geographical location of a vehicle, accessing channel map data associating a channel condition value for each of a set of wireless channels with each of a set of geographical locations during a plurality of time periods of day, and based on the channel map data, the tracked geographical location of the vehicle, and a time of day associated with the vehicle, selecting one of the set of wireless channels for communication.

A communication method includes: receiving a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) rule issued by a policy control functional entity, the MBS rule being generated by the policy control functional entity based on a service request message transmitted by an application functional entity, and the service request message including information of an MBS service region; determining whether the user terminal is located in the MBS service region according to the MBS rule and position information of the user terminal; and accessing an MBS service in the MBS service region in response to a determination that the user terminal is located in the MBS service region.

A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically monitoring for possible infection or other physical health concerns, such as from Covid-19. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The method and system automatically uses and/or learns user location and activity patterns and determines and infection risk that can be communicated as a warning to community members.

A method is described for determining at least one location for backscattering, by at least one transmitter device and to at least one receiver device, of an ambient radio signal, the transmitter device being associated with a zone, a backscattering and a non-backscattering operating state, and a working frequency band. Further, the method is implemented by the transmitter device when it is in the non-backscattering state and comprises travel of the transmitter device in at least one part of the zone, during which the transmitter device acquires, in the working band and in at least one location of the part of the zone, a measurement of electromagnetic power received by the transmitter device, and compares the measurement with a determined threshold, the location associated with the measurement being determined as a location for backscattering if the measurement is greater than the threshold.