Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to determine distance between devices for device to device communication and proximity services
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Application No.: US13797790Application Date: 2013-03-12
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Publication No.: US09648651B2Publication Date: 2017-05-09
- Inventor: Stephen William Edge
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H04W76/02
- IPC: H04W76/02 ; H04W4/02 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L29/08 ; H04W8/00

Abstract:
Various systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for communicating from device to device are described. Device to Device (D2D) communication may bypass use of a network when devices are in communicable proximity of each other. Knowledge of the relative locations of devices that either are already in D2D mode or are not yet in D2D mode but are capable of using D2D mode may be useful. Therefore, various techniques are described for determining distance between two or more devices. Relative locations may also be used to determine the proximity of two devices for some proximity service of common interest.
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