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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:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Pinalkumari Tailor, Ashburn, VA (US);

Yun Sung Kim, Ashburn, VA (US);

Dennis Canoy, Ashburn, VA (US);

Sandeep Mangrulkar, Chantilly, VA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 16/24 (2009.01); H04B 17/345 (2015.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/005 (2013.01); H04W 16/24 (2013.01); H04B 17/345 (2015.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system to help provide efficient configuration of reference signal transmission in a wireless communication system. A processing system evaluates the configurations of various sectors within a region, taking into account distances between the sectors and azimuths of the sectors, to determine for at least one sector an aggregate interference score with respect to one or more nearby sectors having the same reference signal as the sector. And based on the aggregate interference score, the processing system may then reconfigure reference signal transmission of the sector, such as by changing the reference signal configuration of the sector for instance. Further, the processing system may iteratively repeat this process for numerous sectors within a region, to help optimize reference signal configurations throughout the region.


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