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US 10,312,985 B2Granted
System and method for beamforming for wireless stations that have fixed locations
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorMing Jian
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Abstract
An apparatus includes an antenna, a memory and at least one processor. The memory stores data, which represents a beamforming profile for the antenna for wireless communication with a wireless station that has a fixed location. The processor(s), for a plurality of communication frames, configures the antenna based on the data for communications with the wireless station.
Claims22
An apparatus comprising:
- an antenna;
- a memory to store data representing a beamforming profile for the antenna for wireless communication with a wireless station having a fixed location;
- and
- at least one processor to, for each beacon interval of a plurality of beacon intervals for wireless communications with the wireless station:
- reuse the beamforming profile represented by the data stored in the memory to configure the antenna based on the data, and
- bypass performing beamforming training for the communications with the wireless station.
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A method comprising:
- in a first beacon interval, wireless communicating with a wireless station;
- storing data in a memory representing a beamforming profile associated with the wireless station based on the wireless communication with the wireless station in the first beacon interval;
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- based on the beamforming profile represented by the data, for a second beacon interval, reading the data from the memory and configuring an antenna based on the beamforming profile represented by the data;
- and
- performing non-beamforming-related communication with the wireless station in the second beacon interval using the antenna configured based on the beamforming profile.
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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
- wirelessly communicate data with a wireless station of a plurality of wireless stations in a beacon interval, wherein the beacon interval is associated with a parameter representing a number of wireless stations for which beamforming communications are performed within the beacon interval, and the number is less than the number of the plurality of wireless stations;
- store data in a memory prior to commencement of the beacon interval, wherein the data represents beamforming profiles for the plurality of wireless stations;
- and
- bypass beamforming training in the beacon interval, wherein bypassing the beamforming training includes configuring an antenna for the wireless communication in the beacon interval based on the data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.