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Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Djordje Tujkovic, Mountain View, CA (US);

Krishna Gomadam, San Jose, CA (US);

Sanjai Kohli, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatuses, methods, and systems of a node that supports a simultaneous bidirectional wireless link with a second node are disclosed. One embodiment of the node includes a first sector that includes a first transceiver and a first plurality of antennas operative to form a beam directed to a first sector of a second node. The node further includes a second sector that includes a second transceiver and a second plurality of antennas operative to form a beam directed to a second sector of the second node. For at least one time slot of a plurality of time slots, one of the first transceiver or the second transceiver is operative to transmit a first communication signal to the second node while the other of the first transceiver or the second transceiver is operative to receive a second communication signal from the second node.


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