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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:
Oct. 13, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 13, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Krishna Gomadam, San Jose, CA (US);

Djordje Tujkovic, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sanjai Kohli, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/12 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/12 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/086 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatuses, methods, and systems for charactering and selecting micro-routes between nodes of a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes characterizing a plurality of micro-routes between the first node and the second node, wherein the plurality of micro-routes includes a micro-route and at least one other micro-route, including directing a first beam formed by antennas of the first node to a plurality of directions, for each of the plurality of directions of the first beam, directing a second beam formed by antennas of the second node to a plurality of directions, characterizing a link quality between the first node and the second node for each of the plurality of beam directions of the first beam and each of the plurality of beam directions of the second beam, classifying a plurality of clusters of characterized link qualities that include characterized link qualities greater than a threshold.


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