Patent ID: 8565784

Claim:
A method for determining a position of a mobile station in a mobile radio system, the method comprising: receiving from said mobile station N received signal strength measurements that indicate received signal strength relative to a given cell at different times, wherein N is either 2, 3, or 4; sorting the N received signal strength measurements from highest to lowest strength; processing the N received signal strength measurements to produce a first output, by selecting as the first output the largest received signal strength measurement when N is 2, an average of the two largest received signal strength measurements when N is 3, and the second largest received signal strength measurement when N is 4; determining at least one pathloss associated with said mobile station using said first output: and determining a position of said mobile station using said at least one pathloss, by determining an arc within which said mobile station is located based upon timing advance information and determining a sector within said arc within which said mobile station is located based upon said at least one pathloss.