Patent ID: 7039418

Claim:
A method for determining a position of a remote terminal in a wireless communication network having included therein a plurality of transmitting sources, the method comprising: obtaining a set of time measurements for a set of transmitting sources, wherein each time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from a respective transmitting source that is either an origination source or a repeater associated with the origination source; identifying a particular origination source for each received time measurement; generating and maintaining a probable origination source list; comparing a list of originating sources for the received time measurements against the list of probable origination sources for each of at least one repeater in the network; determining whether the remote terminal is under a coverage of a particular repeater based on a result of the comparing; assigning a weighted value to a result of the step of determining wherein the weighted value comprises delays introduces by the at least one repeater; and calculating the position of the remote terminal based on the time measurements and the assigned weighted value.