Patent ID: 11889462
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 24:
25. A method for bi-static radio-based object location detection, the method comprising:
requesting a location of a second wireless device from a first wireless device;
receiving the location of the second wireless device, at the first wireless device, from the second wireless device;
obtaining, at the first wireless device, a time-of-flight (ToF) and an angle of arrival (AoA) of a wireless wide-area network (WWAN) reference signal transmitted by a transmitting device, wherein the TOF and the AoA are obtained from measurements of the WWAN reference signal at a receiving device after the WWAN reference signal is reflected by an object; and
determining, with the first wireless device, a location of the object based on the location of the second wireless device, the ToF, and the AoA;
wherein:
the first wireless device comprises the transmitting device and the second wireless device comprises the receiving device, or
the first wireless device comprises the receiving device and the second wireless device comprises the transmitting device.