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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sarabjot Singh, Santa Clara, CA;
Anum Ali, Austin, TX (US);
Jing Zhu, Portland, OR (US);
Nageen Himayat, Fremont, CA (US);
Candy Yiu, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/30 (2013.01); H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04B 7/088 (2013.01); H04W 36/0083 (2013.01); H04W 36/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus is configured to be employed within one or more nodes. The apparatus includes control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to perform adaptive ranking to generate an alternative ranked set of beam pairs based on an adaptive ranking criteria, where the adaptive ranking criteria includes switching latencies and predicted qualities and select an alternative beam pair of the alternative ranked set of beam pairs.