Patent ID: 7248883

Claim:
A method used by a network station for facilitating the determination of a position, speed and direction of movement of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) within a wireless communication network that provides communication services in a geographic area of service via the network station, the method for the network station comprising: periodically generating directional beams for providing communication services in sectors of the geographic area of service such that each beam provides service to a predefined sector whereby collectively the directional beams provide service to the entire geographic service area; generating the directional beams such that each directional beam includes directional beam identifying information data that at least includes transmission sector identification information; and receiving a collected data set from a WTRU that received a plurality of at least three of the generated directional beams from the network station, where the collected data set includes beam identifying information data and WTRU received signal strength data with respect to each of the plurality of the at least three of the generated directional beams received by the WTRU whereby an estimate of location, speed and direction of movement of the WTRU can be derived from the received collected data set.