ADDITIONAL DATA USED TO DETERMINE LOCATION OF DEVICE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01S5/00 H04W64/00 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: device can determine whether to provide in a packet information used to determine location, and if it is determined that location information can be provided in the packet, the header information in the packet can be configured to indicate that the packet contains location information, and to indicate the type of that information. Said information can then be included in the transmitted packet. If the packet is an advertising packet, the packet can be transmitted over an advertising channel. The device searching for signals can then receive the packet and, based on the header information in the packet, determine whether the packet contains location information. If it is determined that the packet contains location information, location in the device searching for signals can be configured based in the header information, and location can be performed in the device searching for signals based on the location information contained in the packet.

EFFECT: providing information used to carry out location operations to facilitate location.

17 cl, 15 dwg