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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Hemanth B. Pawar, Brambleton, VA (US);
Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas, Brambleton, VA (US);
Krishna Sitaram, Chantilly, VA (US);
Chunmei Liu, Great Falls, VA (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method and corresponding apparatus to help manage wireless communication between a base station and a device served by the base. In accordance with the disclosure, when a base station transitions from serving the device on just a first carrier to serving the device on a combination of the first carrier and a second carrier, the base station will responsively take action to improve downlink communication to the device on the first carrier. In particular, the base station will respond to the occurrence of that transition by starting to beamform downlink transmission to the device on the first carrier.