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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 25, 2014
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Shashi Kant, Vallingby, SE;

Sairamesh Nammi, Austin, TX (US);

Goutam Ramamurthy, Bromma, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04B 7/0417 (2017.01); H04B 7/0456 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0465 (2013.01); H04B 7/0417 (2013.01); H04B 7/0486 (2013.01); H04B 7/0626 (2013.01); H04B 7/0632 (2013.01); H04B 7/0634 (2013.01); H04B 7/0639 (2013.01); H04B 7/0697 (2013.01); H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04W 52/0212 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04W 72/0413 (2013.01); H04W 72/0466 (2013.01); Y02D 70/1244 (2018.01); Y02D 70/1262 (2018.01); Y02D 70/142 (2018.01); Y02D 70/146 (2018.01); Y02D 70/21 (2018.01); Y02D 70/444 (2018.01);
Abstract

The disclosure relates to a method performed in a wireless device for establishing a feedback metric. The wireless device is configured with a grouping of available precoding matrix indicators, PMIs, of a codebook, the grouping comprising two or more groups each of which comprises an exclusive subset of the available precoding matrix indicators, PMIs. The method comprises: identifying for one or more rank indicator, RI, hypotheses a respective parent PMI providing the highest link quality metric, LQM; establishing for one or more of the identified parent PMIs, a respective set of child PMIs; determining a link quality metric, LQM for each child PMIs of the established one or more sets of child PMIs; and establishing the feedback metric to be the child PMI having the highest link quality metric, LQM. The disclosure also relates to a wireless device, method in a network node, network node, computer programs and computer program products.


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