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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2020
Building Materials Investment Corporation, Dallas, TX (US);
Rich Robinson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Xavier Riley, San Jose, CA (US);
Building Materials Investment Corporation, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a system of integrated roofing accessories on a plurality of roofs, where at least one integrated roofing accessory on each roof may include: i) at least one transceiver configured to produce millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency signals using fifth generation cellular networking (5G) protocols, ii) at least one dielectric antenna in electrical communication with the at least one transceiver for emitting the mmWave frequency signals according to the at least one 5G protocol, iii) an edge computing device having at least one processor and at least one non-transitory storage with software to operate the edge computing device in communication with the at least one transceiver, and iv) at least one power supply. The software is configured to cause, when executed, the integrated roofing accessories to form a 5G network using the mmWave frequency signals which communicates with at least one computing device.