Patent ID: 9560620
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. At an initiating wireless station (STA), a method for obtaining fine timing measurements comprising: transmitting a fine timing measurement (FTM) request message to a responding STA, the FTM request message indicating a capability of the initiating STA to share at least one ranging parameter with the responding STA, the at least one ranging parameter comprising one or more parameters indicative of one or more distances between at least one pair of devices; receiving one or more FTM messages from the responding STA in response to the FTM request message; determining one or more parameters indicative of a range between the initiating STA and the responding STA based, at least in part, on a time of transmission of at least one of the one or more FTM messages; and transmitting one or more FTM range report messages containing the one or more parameters to the responding STA.