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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Nxp Usa, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Jayesh H. Kotecha, Austin, TX (US);
Jayakrishnan Cheriyath Mundarath, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/02 (2018.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04B 17/26 (2015.01); H04B 7/0426 (2017.01); H04B 7/0417 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04B 7/043 (2013.01); H04B 7/0421 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 17/26 (2015.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01);
Abstract
A base station is configured to provides a beam change feedback channel for a user equipment to communicate unsolicited beam change feedback to the base station. If the user equipment determines that a beam other than the beam to which the user equipment is tuned has a stronger signal, the user equipment initiates a transmission on the beam change feedback channel to the base station indicating a beam change. The base station uses the feedback from the user equipment to update the beam to the user equipment.