User equipment with cellular link and peer-to-peer link
AssigneeXCOM Labs, Inc.
InventorsPeter John Black, Michael Mingxi Fan, Tamer Adel Kadous, Matthew Stuart Grob
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Abstract
Aspects of this disclosure relate to pair of wireless communication devices wirelessly communicating with a network system in a coordinated manner. A secondary wireless communication device can wirelessly communicate part of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission associated with a primary wireless communication device (i) with the primary wireless communication device via the peer-to-peer link and (ii) with the network system via a cellular link. The secondary wireless communication device can enable the primary wireless communication device to communicate with the network system at a higher data rate and/or at a higher MIMO rank.
Claims23
A method of processing downlink data, the method comprising:
- establishing a communication channel between a primary user equipment and a secondary user equipment via a peer-to-peer wireless link between the primary user equipment and the secondary user equipment;
- while the primary user equipment is receiving first multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink data for the primary user equipment via a cellular communication, receiving second MIMO downlink data for the primary user equipment using one or more antennas of the secondary user equipment;
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- transmitting the second MIMO downlink data to the primary user equipment via the communication channel.
A user equipment comprising:
- one or more antennas configured to receive a part of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink data transmission;
- a peer-to-peer wireless interface configured to communicate with a primary user equipment;
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- a processor in communication with the one or more antennas and the peer-to-peer wireless interface, the processor configured to:
- receive the part of the MIMO downlink data transmission via the one or more antennas;
- determine that the part of the MIMO downlink data is associated with the primary user equipment;
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- cause transmission of symbol level data corresponding to the part of the MIMO downlink data via the peer-to-peer wireless interface to the primary user equipment.
A method of processing uplink data, the method comprising:
- establishing a communication channel between a secondary user equipment and a primary user equipment via a peer-to-peer wireless interface of the secondary user equipment;
- while the primary user equipment is transmitting first multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink data for the primary user equipment to a network system via a cellular communication, receiving, by the secondary user equipment, second MIMO uplink data transmission from the primary user equipment via the communication channel;
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- transmitting, using one or more antennas of the secondary user equipment, the second MIMO uplink data to the network system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.