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US 8,806,542 B2Granted
Scanning and selecting an antenna beam provided in fixed wireless customer premises equipment
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsSergio Aguirre, Raafat Edward Kamel, Kamlesh S. Kamdar, Lalit R. Kotecha, Jae-Wook Song
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Abstract
An outdoor broadband unit receives a current time, a short term maintenance mode time period, and a long term maintenance mode time period from a remote network device. The outdoor broadband unit determines a mode associated with selection of an antenna beam, provided on an antenna of the outdoor broadband unit, based on at least one of the current time, the short term maintenance mode time period, and the long term maintenance mode time period. The outdoor broadband unit selects an antenna beam to use based on the determined mode.
Claims21
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by customer premises equipment, a current time from a remote network device;
- receiving, by the customer premises equipment, a first time period from the remote network device, wherein the first time period is associated with a short term maintenance mode;
- receiving, by the customer premises equipment, a second time period from the remote network device, wherein the second time period is associated with a long term maintenance mode and wherein the second time period is longer than the first time period;
- determining, by the customer premises equipment, a mode associated with selection of an antenna beam of a plurality of antenna beams of a directional antenna of the customer premises equipment, based on at least one of the current time, the first time period, and the second time period;
- and
- selecting, by the customer premises equipment, a first antenna beam of the plurality of antenna beams to use based on the determined mode.
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A customer premises equipment, comprising:
- a directional antenna that includes a plurality of antenna beams;
- and
- a processor to:
- receive a current time from a remote network device,
- receive a first time period from the remote network device, wherein the first time period is associated with a short term maintenance mode,
- receive a second time period from the remote network device, wherein the second time period is associated with a long term maintenance mode and wherein the second time period is longer than the first time period,
- determine a mode associated with selection of an antenna beam of the plurality of antenna beams of the directional antenna based on at least one of the current time, the first time period, and the second time period,
- where the determined mode includes one of an installation mode, a power on/off mode, the short term maintenance mode, or a long term maintenance mode, and
- select a first antenna beam of the plurality of antenna beams to use based on the determined mode.
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A method, comprising:
- providing, by a computing device, a current time to a remote customer premises equipment;
- providing, by the computing device, a first time period to the remote customer premises equipment, wherein the first time period is associated with a short term maintenance mode;
- providing, by the computing device, a second time period to the remote customer premises equipment, wherein the remote customer premises equipment selects a first antenna beam, from a plurality of antenna beams of a directional antenna, as an optimal antenna beam based on an at least one of the current time, the first time period, and the second time period and wherein the second time period is longer than the first time period and is associated with a long term maintenance mode;
- and
- instructing, by the computing device, the remote customer premises equipment to enable or disable an installation mode of the remote customer premises equipment.
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A device comprising:
- a memory to store a plurality of instructions;
- and
- a processor to execute instructions in the memory to:
- provide a current time to a remote customer premises equipment,
- provide a first time period to the remote customer premises equipment, wherein the first time period is associated with a short term maintenance mode,
- provide a second time period to the remote customer premises equipment, where the remote customer premises equipment selects a first antenna beam, from a plurality of antenna beams of a directional antenna, as an optimal antenna beam based on at least one of the current time, the first time period, and the second time period and wherein the second time period is longer than the first time period and is associated with a long term maintenance mode, and
- instruct the remote customer premises equipment to enable or disable an installation mode of the remote customer premises equipment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.