US 11,240,683 B2Granted

Personal adaptive radio access network advanced capabilities

AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.

InventorsJames Fan, Dan Celenti, Alireza Hooshiari, Max Faulkner, Jr., Arthur Brisebois

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Abstract

Personal adaptive radio access network advanced capabilities are provided. A device can include a transceiver; a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising facilitating movement of the device from a first position associated with a user equipment (UE) to a second position in response to an observed signal strength at the UE from a communication network being determined to have fallen below a threshold; in response to facilitating the movement of the device, determining a first communication frequency for communications between the device and the UE based on features determined to be present in an environment associated with the UE; and conveying signals transmitted by the communication network to the UE via the transceiver at the first communication frequency instead of a second communication frequency used by the communication network.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A device, comprising:

a transceiver;
a processor;
and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
in response to an observed signal strength at a user equipment, associated with the device, being determined to have fallen below a threshold, physically decoupling the device from a launch surface that was physically coupled to the device, resulting in facilitation of movement of the device from a first position associated with the user equipment to a second position different from the first position, wherein the user equipment is able to communicate via a communication network;
in response to physically decoupling the device from the launch surface, determining a first communication frequency for communications between the device and the user equipment based on features determined to be present in an environment associated with the user equipment, the first communication frequency being different from a second communication frequency used by the communication network;
and
conveying signals transmitted via the communication network to the user equipment using the transceiver at the first communication frequency instead of at the second communication frequency.

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A method, comprising:

physically coupling, by a mobile antenna device comprising a processor, to a user equipment;
in response to a signal strength observed at the user equipment from a communication network being lower than a threshold, physically decoupling, by the mobile antenna device, from the user equipment, resulting in facilitation of movement of the mobile antenna device from a first position associated with the user equipment to a second position;
in response to physically decoupling the mobile antenna device from the user equipment, determining, by the mobile antenna device, a first communication frequency for communication from the mobile antenna device to the user equipment based on features of an environment associated with the user equipment, wherein the first communication frequency is different from a second communication frequency used by the communication network;
and
relaying, by the mobile antenna device, communications from the communication network to the user equipment at the first communication frequency instead of the second communication frequency.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a mobile antenna device, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

in response to a signal strength, observed at a user device and received via a communication network, being lower than a threshold, causing the mobile antenna device to physically decouple from a launch surface associated with the user device;
in response to causing the mobile antenna device to physically decouple from the launch surface, causing the mobile antenna device to move from a first location associated with the user device to a second location that is distinct from the first location;
determining a first frequency for communication from the mobile antenna device to the user device while at the second location based on features of an environment associated with the user device, wherein the first frequency is different from a second frequency used by the communication network;
and
relaying signals from the communication network to the user device at the first frequency instead of the second frequency while at the second location.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.