Communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsShin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE
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Abstract
A communications device comprises controller circuitry configured in combination transmitter and receiver circuitry to form one or more beams to transmit data, each of the beams having a different angular bias with respect to a location of the communications device, to transmit the signals, using a first of the beams, to change, dependent on one or more sets of predetermined conditions being met, a beam width of the first of the beams, and to re-transmit the signals using the first of the beams having the changed beam width.
Claims22
A communications device for transmitting data to or receiving data from a wireless communications network, the communications device comprising
- transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals to one or more infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network via a wireless access interface provided by the one or more infrastructure equipment,
- receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the one or more infrastructure equipment via the wireless access interface, and
- controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to transmit or to receive the signals representing data, the controller circuitry being configured in combination with the receiver circuitry and the transmitter circuitry
- to form one or more beams which can be used by the transmitter circuity to transmit data to one or more of the infrastructure equipment, each of the beams having a different angular bias with respect to a location of the communications device,
- to transmit the signals, using a first of the beams, to one of the infrastructure equipment,
- to change, dependent on one or more sets of predetermined conditions being met, a beam width of the first of the beams, and
- to re-transmit, using the first of the beams having the changed beam width, the signals to the one of the infrastructure equipment.
A communications device for transmitting data to or receiving data from a wireless communications network, the communications device comprising
- transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals to one or more infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network via a wireless access interface provided by the one or more infrastructure equipment,
- receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the one or more infrastructure equipment via the wireless access interface, and
- controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to transmit or to receive the signals representing data, the controller circuitry being configured in combination with the receiver circuitry and the transmitter circuitry
- to form a plurality of beams which can be used by the transmitter circuity to transmit data to one or more of the infrastructure equipment, each of the beams being offset from one another,
- to transmit, using a first of the beams, data to one of the infrastructure equipment, and
- to re-transmit using at least one next beam, dependent on one or more sets of predetermined conditions being met, the data to the one of the infrastructure equipment.
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An infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network, the infrastructure equipment comprising
- transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals to one or more communications devices via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network,
- receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the one or more communications devices via the wireless access interface, and
- controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to transmit or to receive the signals representing data, the controller circuitry being configured in combination with the receiver circuitry and the transmitter circuitry
- to form one or more beams which can be used by the transmitter circuity to transmit data to one or more of the communications devices, each of the beams having a different angular bias with respect to a location of the infrastructure equipment,
- to transmit the signals, using a first of the beams, to one of the communications devices,
- to change, dependent on one or more sets of predetermined conditions being met, a beam width of the first of the beams, and
- to re-transmit, using the first of the beams having the changed beam width, the signals to the one of the communications devices.
-32. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.