US 11,601,237 B2Granted

Method and system for a repeater network that utilizes distributed transceivers with array processing

AssigneeGolba LLC

InventorMehran Moshfeghi

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Abstract

A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input data stream from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input data stream from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay data stream corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

in a relay device that comprises a plurality of antenna arrays:
configuring a first beamforming setting for a first set of antenna arrays in the plurality of antenna arrays of the relay device to establish a first link between the relay device and a source device;
configuring a second beamforming setting for a second set of antenna arrays in the plurality of antenna arrays of the relay device to establish a second link between the relay device and a destination device,
wherein configuring the first beamforming setting for the first set of antenna arrays and the second beamforming setting for the second set of antenna arrays comprises phase shifting a signal by a different value for each element within the first set of antenna arrays and the second set of antenna arrays;
receiving a data stream from the source device through the first link;
sending the data stream to at least one processor that is connected to the plurality of antenna arrays;
selecting a relay mode of operation of the plurality of antenna arrays based on an analysis of communication environment information from end-user application devices;
and
forwarding the data stream to the destination device through the second link based on the selected relay mode of operation.

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A system, comprising:

a relay device that comprises a plurality of antenna arrays, wherein the relay device is configured to:
configure a first beamforming setting for a first set of antenna arrays in the plurality of antenna arrays of the relay device to establish a first link between the relay device and a source device;
configure a second beamforming setting for a second set of antenna arrays in the plurality of antenna arrays of the relay device to establish a second link between the relay device and a destination device,
wherein the first beamforming setting for the first set of antenna arrays and the second beamforming setting for the second set of antenna arrays are configured based on a phase shift of a signal by a different value for each element within the first set of antenna arrays and the second set of antenna arrays;
receive a data stream from the source device through the first link;
send the data stream to at least one processor that is connected to the plurality of antenna arrays;
select a relay mode of operation of the plurality of antenna arrays based on an analysis of communication environment information from end-user application devices;
and
forward the data stream to the destination device through the second link based on the selected relay mode of operation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/230,566Filed 14 Apr 2021 · continuation
Priority: 17 Oct 2011
Published: US 2021/0234649 A129 Jul 2021
Granted: 7 Mar 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification23 codes

H04L 5/0032
Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path: distributed allocation, i.e. involving a plurality of allocating devices, each…
H04B 1/40
Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of…: circuits
H04B 7/024
Site diversity; Macro-diversity: co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input…
H04B 7/043
Power distribution: using best eigenmode, e.g. beam forming or beam steering

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