Samsung patents way for low-power devices to find their location faster
Samsung describes a method for low-power devices, such as sensors or trackers, to determine their location more efficiently. The device combines signals from different frequency bands into a single measurement to calculate its position without using too much battery.
In the filing’s own words
A system and a method for positioning by a user equipment (UE) may include receiving, by the UE, a radio resource control (RRC) signal comprising a measurement request, receiving, by the UE, at least two positioning reference signals (PRSs), each of the at least two PRSs corresponding to different fractions of an operating frequency range, determining that the at least PRSs are coherently combinable, aggregating, by the UE, the at least two PRSs in one measurement gap, and reporting, by the UE, measurements based on the aggregating the at least two PRSs.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A positioning method comprising: receiving, by a user equipment (UE), an aggregated positioning reference signal (PRS); determining, by the UE, a defined amount of aggregation for the aggregated PRS based on one or more channel parameters; and performing, by the UE, measurements based on the defined amount of aggregation and the aggregated PRS.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- METHODS FOR POSITIONING IN LOW-POWER REDUCED CAPABILITY USER EQUIPMENT
- Publication number
- US20260304369A1
- Application number
- 19629773
- Filed
- Mar 26, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04W 64/00 Electricity & electronicsG01S 5/0036 Physics & computingG01S 5/02524 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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