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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:
Jun. 11, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Nagi A. Mansour, Arlington, VA (US);

Marouane Balmakhtar, Alexandria, VA (US);

Aaron J. Pawlowski, Potomac Falls, VA (US);

Kaushik Goswami, Herndon, VA (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/40 (2015.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04B 1/40 (2013.01); H04L 27/2646 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) access point receives and processes beamforming feedback data from User Equipment (UE) to form a beamforming feedback loop, transmits a beamformed radio signal to the UE, and determines if the beamforming feedback loop is experiencing a beamforming lag condition, and if so, switches to a closed-loop spatial multiplexing transmit protocol. The OFDM access point receives and processes closed-loop spatial multiplexing feedback data from the UE to form a closed-loop spatial multiplexing feedback loop, transmits a closed-loop spatial multiplexed radio signal to the UE, and determines if the closed-loop spatial multiplexing feedback loop is experiencing a spatial multiplexing lag condition, and if so, switches to an open-loop spatial multiplexing transmit protocol. An OFDM access point receives and processes open-loop spatial multiplexing feedback data from the UE to form an open-loop spatial multiplexing feedback loop and transmits an open-loop spatial multiplexed radio signal to the UE.


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