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US 11,147,045 B2Granted
Multi-antenna communication in a wireless network
AssigneeIII Holdings 1, LLC
InventorsRobert Warner, Jack Winters, James June-Ming Wang
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Abstract
A wireless communication device may receive with one of N antennas a signal processing message indicating a number up to N signals to process. Each of the N antennas may used to receive a communication. The indicated number of up to N signals may be processed and data from the indicated number of up to N signals recovered.
Claims10
A wireless communication device comprising:
- N antennas, wherein N is an integer greater than one;
- a receiver;
- a transmitter;
- and
- a processor;
- the processor is configured to determine a diversity technique out of a plurality of diversity techniques, wherein the diversity techniques include beamforming and spatial diversity, wherein
- on a condition that the determined diversity technique is spatial diversity;
- at least one of the N antennas and the receiver are configured to receive, from a wireless network, a signal processing message indicating a number up to X signals to process, wherein each of the N antennas receive a transmission from a wireless network, and wherein N antennas is the same number as X signals;
- the receiver and the processor are configured to process the indicated number of up to X signals and to recover data from the indicated number of up to X signals;
- on a condition that the determined diversity technique is beamforming:
- a plurality of the N antennas, the receiver and the processor are configured to receive and process a first beam transmitted from the wireless network;
- the processor configured to determine a second beam for transmission based on the processed first beam;
- and
- the processor, the receiver and a plurality of the N antennas configured to transmit the second beam to the wireless network.
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A method performed by a wireless communication device, the method comprising:
- determining a diversity technique out of a plurality of diversity techniques, wherein the diversity techniques include beamforming and spatial diversity,
- wherein on a condition that the determined diversity technique is spatial diversity:
- receiving, from a wireless network, a signal processing message indicating a number up to X signals to process, wherein each of N antennas receive a transmission from a wireless network, wherein N is an integer greater than one, and wherein N antennas is the same number as X signals;
- processing the indicated number of up to X signals and to recover data from the indicated number of up to X signals;
- and
- wherein on a condition that the determined diversity technique is beamforming:
- receiving, at a plurality of the N antennas, a first beam transmitted from the wireless network;
- determining a second beam for transmission based on the first beam;
- and
- transmitting, at the plurality of the N antennas, the second beam to the wireless network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.