System and related methods for beamforming in a multi-point communications environment
AssigneeArrayComm, Inc.
InventorsAthanasios Kasapi, Jason Liu
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A system and related methods for beamforming in a multi-point communication environment is presented. According to one aspect of the invention, a method comprising identifying one or more target(s) for which a communication signal is intended, identifying one or more other target(s) which may benefit from receipt of the communication signal, and developing a multi-lobe beampattern to transmit the communication signal to the intended target(s) and the identified one or more other target(s).
Claims33
In a wireless communication system, a method for beamforming comprising:
- identifying one or more target(s) for which a communication signal is intended;
- identifying one or more other target(s) which may benefit from receipt of the communication signal;
- and
- developing a multi-lobe beampattern to transmit the communication signal to the intended target(s) and the identified one or more other target(s).
A transceiver comprising:
- wireless communication resources, to selectively transmit a wireless communication signal via an antenna array;
- and
- a communications agent, coupled with the wireless communication resources, to identify one or more target(s) for which the communication signal is intended as well as one or more other target(s) which may also benefit from receipt of the communication signal, and to develop a multi-lobe beampattern to transmit the communication signal to the intended target(s) and the identified one or more other target(s).
A storage medium comprising content which, when executed by an accessing computing device, causes the computing device to implement a communications agent to identify one or more target(s) of a communication signal as well as one or more other target(s) which may also benefit from receipt of the communication signal, and to develop a multi-lobe beampattern to transmit the communication signal to the intended target(s) and the identified one or more other target(s).
A subscriber unit comprising:
- wireless communication resources, to selectively transmit a wireless communication signal via an antenna array;
- and
- a communications agent, coupled with the wireless communication resources, to identify one or more target(s) for which the communication signal is intended as well as one or more other target(s) which may also benefit from receipt of the communication signal, and to develop a multi-lobe beampattern to transmit the communication signal to the intended target(s) and the identified one or more other target(s).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.