Patent ID: 11882541
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media (CRM) comprising instructions to, upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to:
provide a positioning request to a node while the UE is in a radio resource control idle (RRC_IDLE) or inactive (RRC_INACTIVE) state, the positioning request implemented in a random access channel (RACH) message A (MsgA);
receive an uplink (UL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource configuration from the node;
provide UL PRS data to the node based at least in part on the UL PRS resource configuration; and
receive a positioning response from the node, the positioning response implemented in a RACH message B (MsgB),
wherein the UL PRS data is provided to the node prior to receipt of the positioning response.