Patent ID: 11917721
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A communications device comprising:
one or more environmental sensors; and
a first processor configured to control the communications device to:
determine one or more expected outdoor environmental conditions, said determining one or more expected outdoor environmental conditions includes determining a first expected outdoor condition value;
determine a first difference value, said first difference value being a difference between a first environmental measurement value and the determined first expected outdoor condition value;
determine a first probability that the communications device is indoors based on the first difference value, said communications device being a user equipment (UE);
generate a first enclosure indicator value based on the first environmental measurement value; and
perform, at the communications device, one or more actions based on an enclosure state determined based on at least the first enclosure indicator value.