System and method for a motion-responsive reconfiguring of a non-volatile reconfigurable metasurface

A method of maximizing radiofrequency signal throughput in a radiofrequency environment with a reconfigurable metasurface unit cell array operatively coupled to an information handling system comprising:

• executing machine-readable program code instructions of a metasurface adaptive wireless beamforming system module with a hardware processor to monitor movement of the information handling system via a motion sensor;
• executing machine-readable program code instructions of the metasurface adaptive wireless beamforming system module with the hardware processor to determine when detected movement of the information handling system exceeds a movement threshold;
• initiating a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) radiofrequency throughput scan and use resulting RSSI data to determine a location of a radiofrequency source device and a target receiver wireless device or a low radiofrequency throughput zone relative to the reconfigurable metasurface unit cell array within the radiofrequency environment of the information handling system;
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• reconfiguring, with a metasurface hardware controller, the electromagnetic reflective properties of one or more reconfigurable metasurface unit cells of the reconfigurable metasurface unit cell array to reflect EM wave towards the location of the target receiver wireless device or the low throughput zone within the radiofrequency environment, where the metasurface hardware controller switches between a conductive state and a dielectric state of an element of the one or more reconfigurable metasurface unit cells.

An information handling system comprising:

• a hardware processor, a memory device, and a power management unit (PMU) to provide power to the hardware processor and memory device;
• a reconfigurable metasurface unit cell array operatively coupled to the information handling system to directionally reflect an electromagnetic wave (EM) of a radiofrequency signal, the reconfigurable metasurface unit cell array including a plurality of reconfigurable metasurface unit cells, each of the plurality of reconfigurable metasurface unit cells includes a switchable element between a conductive state and a dielectric state in the reconfigurable metasurface unit cells, where the switchable element is comprised of a non-volatile phase-changing material;
• machine-readable code instructions of a metasurface adaptive wireless beamforming system module to, when executed by the hardware processor or a platform controller hub (PCH) hardware controller, detect movement of the information handling system via a motion sensor to determine if the movement of the information handling system exceeds a movement threshold;
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• a metasurface controller to reconfigure the electromagnetic reflective properties of the reconfigurable metasurface unit cell array by switching the switchable element of at least one reconfigurable metasurface unit cell between the conductive state and the dielectric state to reconfigure the reflected EM wave direction towards a target receiver wireless device or a low radiofrequency throughput zone within a radiofrequency environment of the reconfigurable metasurface unit cell array.