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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. 23, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Akin Ozozlu, McLean, VA (US);

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

Kevin Almon Hart, Oakton, VA (US);

Noman Muzaffar Alam, Chantilly, VA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 21/24 (2006.01); H01Q 21/06 (2006.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 21/24 (2013.01); H01Q 21/062 (2013.01); H01Q 21/065 (2013.01); H04B 7/0608 (2013.01); H04B 7/0691 (2013.01); H04B 7/0693 (2013.01); H04B 7/0805 (2013.01); H04B 7/0877 (2013.01); H04W 52/0277 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 92/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 52/0232 (2013.01); Y02D 70/444 (2018.01);
Abstract

Wireless communication devices have antennas, and the antennas have earth-orientations. The wireless devices exchange network signaling with a wireless access node over the antennas. Some of network signaling indicates Device-to-Device (D2D) communication times and frequencies. The wireless communication devices exchange device signaling with each other over the antennas using the D2D communication times and frequencies. Some of the device signaling indicates the earth orientations for the antennas. The wireless communication devices select a subset of the antennas based on the earth orientations. The wireless communication devices exchange user data with each other over the selected subset of antennas using the D2D communication times and frequencies.


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