Patent ID: 9736640
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G01S,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. At an observing wireless transceiver device, a method comprising: receiving one or more fine timing measurement (FTM) range request messages from an assisting access point device comprising one or more neighbor report subelements fields, at least one of the one or more neighbor report subelements fields comprising a wide bandwidth channel subelement of one or more neighboring wireless transceiver devices, the one or more FTM range request messages being initiated by the assisting access point device; and exchanging messages with at least one of the one or more neighboring wireless transceiver devices based, at least in part, on one or more parameters in the wide bandwidth channel subelement, the exchanging of messages utilized to determine round trip time or other parameters indicative of range between the observing wireless transceiver device and the one or more neighboring wireless transceiver devices.