Patent ID: 7940740

Claim:
A wireless communication device operable in a wireless communication system that includes at least one base station, the wireless communication device comprising: a receiver operable to receive at least a section of a subframe from a base station, the subframe including a plurality of transmission resources multiplexed onto subcarriers of a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, each transmission resource of the plurality of transmission resources occupying a predetermined amount of time on a respective one of the subcarriers, the plurality of OFDM symbols being arranged into at least a first set of OFDM symbols that includes a positioning reference signal and a second set of OFDM symbols that does not include the positioning reference signal; and a processor operably coupled to the receiver, the processor operable to: determine, based on an identifier associated with the base station, a set of transmission resources over which the positioning reference signal was transmitted, the set of transmission resources constituting at least a portion of the first set of OFDM symbols; and process the set of transmission resources to estimate timing information associated with the positioning reference signal.