Terminal device, infrastructure equipments and methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11071084-B2
Application number	US-201816768077-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2018
Priority date	Nov 30, 2017
Publication date	Jul 20, 2021
Grant date	Jul 20, 2021

Abstract

A terminal device configured to receive a radio signal from which measurements can be used to assist in determining a position of the terminal device. The terminal device detects one or more system information blocks carrying position assistance information transmitted from the infrastructure equipment and estimates the position of the terminal device by combining the identified position assistance information with the radio signal received by the position detection receiver circuitry. Furthermore the terminal device receives from the infrastructure equipment an indication of relative risk that the position assistance information will change, and in response to the indication of the relative risk that the position assistance information will change to adapt the receiving of the one or more system information blocks to receive an updated version of the position assistance information in accordance with the relative risk.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising:
wireless communications receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the infrastructure equipment via a wireless access interface provided by the infrastructure equipment,
position detection receiver circuitry configured to receive, from a satellite or non-satellite signal emitting device, a radio signal from which measurements can be used to assist in determining a position of the terminal device, and
controller circuitry configured to
control the wireless communications receiver circuitry to detect one or more system information blocks carrying position assistance information transmitted from the infrastructure equipment, the position assistance information providing information which can be used to assist in determining the position of terminal device, and
control the position detection circuitry to estimate the position of the terminal device by combining the identified position assistance information with the radio signal received by the position detection receiver circuitry,

wherein the controller circuitry is configured with the wireless communications receiver circuitry to
receive from the infrastructure equipment, prior to the position assistance information changing, an indication of relative risk that the position assistance information will change, and
prior to the position assistance information changing, and in response to the indication of the relative risk that the position assistance information will change, adapt the receiving of the one or more system information blocks to receive an updated version of the position assistance information in accordance with the relative risk.

2. A terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the indication of the relative risk received from the infrastructure equipment represents an indication of an immediate change of the position assistance information, and the controller circuitry is configured with the receiver circuitry to receive a paging messaging from the infrastructure equipment providing the indication of the immediate change of the position assistance information.

3. A terminal device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the updated version of the position assistance information is provided in the paging message carrying the immediate position assistance information update.

4. A terminals device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the paging message provides an indication that the position assistance information is invalid, and in response the controller circuitry is configured to detect the one or more system information blocks carrying the updated version of the position assistance information.

5. A terminal device according claim 2 , wherein the controller circuitry is configured to determine whether the terminal device is performing a task dependent upon the estimate of the location of the terminal device, and in response to receiving the paging message indicating an immediate change to the position assistance information to suspend the performing of the task.

6. A terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller circuitry is configured in combination with the wireless communications receiver circuitry to detect the one or more system information blocks carrying the position assistance information in accordance with a discontinuous reception cycle comprising in a first part of the cycle for detecting the one or more system information blocks and a second part of the cycle in which the one or more system information blocks are not detected, and the controller circuitry is configured to adapt one or both of a length of the first and the second parts of the cycle in accordance with the relative risk.

7. A terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller circuitry is configured in combination with the wireless communications receiver circuitry in accordance with an indicated first relative risk to detect one or more system information blocks carrying the updated position assistance information by receiving in one of a plurality of modification periods an indication that the one or more system information blocks should be received in a subsequent one of the modification periods and to receive the one or more system information blocks carrying the updated version of the position assistance information in the subsequent one of the modification periods, and in accordance with an indicated second relative risk representing a greater likely of a change in the position assistance information, to adapt the receiving of the one or more system information blocks carrying the updated version of the position assistance information to detect a paging message indicating that the position assistance information has changed and in response to the paging message to detect the one or more system information blocks carrying the updated version of the position assistance information in one of the plurality of modification periods.

8. A terminal device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the paging message includes an indication of the modification period in which the one or more system information blocks carrying the updated version of the position assistance information are transmitted by the infrastructure equipment.

9. A terminal device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the paging message provides an indication of the one or more system information blocks carrying the updated version of the position assistance information.

10. A terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the position detection receiver circuitry is configured to include a plurality of detectors, one of the detectors being configured to detect the radio signal and one or more other detectors for detecting one or more other radio signals which can be used to generate an estimate of a location of the terminal device, and in response to the indication of the relative risk that the position assistance information will change to adapt the position detection receiver to generate the estimate of the location of the terminal device using the one or more other detectors.

11. A terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller circuitry is configured to determine whether the terminal device is performing a task dependent upon the estimate of the location of the terminal device, and in response to the indication of the relative risk that the position assistance information will change to suspend the performing of the task.

12. A terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the signal emitting device is a non-satellite signal emitting device provided in an indoor space.

13. A terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the adapting the receiving of the one or more system information blocks to receive the updated version of the position assistance information in accordance with the relative risk includes either switching from a normal mode to an arrangement corresponding to an earthquake and tsunami warning signal (ETWS) communication to read system information (SI) without waiting for a next period of notification change or switching from a relatively long discontinuous reception cycle (DRX) period to a shorter discontinuous reception cycle (DRX) period.

14. A terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the change in the position assistance information is unexpected rather than predetermined.

15. A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising:
wireless communications receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the infrastructure equipment via a wireless access interface provided by the inf

Assignees

• Sony Corp
• Sony Mobile Communications Inc

Inventors

• Wakabayashi Hideji
• Berggren Anders
• Wei Yuxin
• Sharma Vivek
• Tsuda Shinichiro

Classifications

• H04W68/00

  User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like · CPC title

• H04W64/006 Primary

  with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination · CPC title

• H04W4/20

  Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel · CPC title

• H04W4/02

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• H04W64/00 Primary

  Locating users or terminals {or network equipment} for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management · CPC title