18897021. MANY-TO-MANY WIRELESS NETWORK RANGING TECHNIQUE (Apple Inc.)

MANY-TO-MANY WIRELESS NETWORK RANGING TECHNIQUE

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Oren Shani of Saratoga CA US

Josef Peery of Kadima IL

Leonid Vainbrand of Rishon LeTsiyon IL

Udi Atar of Tel Aviv IL

Yoav Feinmesser of Tel Aviv IL

Yoel Boger of Shoham IL

MANY-TO-MANY WIRELESS NETWORK RANGING TECHNIQUE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18897021 titled 'MANY-TO-MANY WIRELESS NETWORK RANGING TECHNIQUE

Original Abstract Submitted

Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations comprising periodically broadcasting, by a first wireless device, outgoing ranging packets on a measurement channel of a wireless network; receiving, by the first wireless device on the measurement channel and from a second wireless device, a plurality of incoming ranging data packets; and calculating, by the first wireless device and using a three ranging packet exchange with the second wireless device, a range to the second wireless device.