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Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 01, 2016
Applicants:

Peter Ashwood-smith, Gatineau, CA;

Tao Wan, Ottawa, CA;

Inventors:

Peter Ashwood-Smith, Gatineau, CA;

Tao Wan, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04B 17/12 (2015.01); H04B 17/345 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04B 17/12 (2015.01); H04B 17/345 (2015.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the invention pertain to methods and devices that allow user equipment (UE), such as for example wireless devices, to reconfigure their respective antennas in a dynamic manner to allow connection to additional or fewer logical networks, also being referred to as network slices. Changing the configuration of the array of antennas may include changing an existing configuration, or allocation, of the antennas that are currently communicating with a first number of logical networks into a different configuration of antennas for communicating with a second, different second number of logical networks. In some cases this may mean that antennas that were allocated for communicating with a primary logical network are re-allocated for communicating with a second logical network, with other antennas remaining in communication with the primary logical network.


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