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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:
Jun. 29, 2021

Filed:

May. 20, 2019
Applicants:

At&t Technical Services Company, Inc., Vienna, VA (US);

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Daniel Vivanco, Ashburn, VA (US);

Mark Stockert, San Antonio, TX (US);

Slawomir Stawiarski, Carpentersville, IL (US);

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 60/00 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 76/12 (2018.02); H04W 76/27 (2018.02);
Abstract

Beamforming techniques can improve base station transmission power and user equipment (UE) sensitivity reception. For example, beamforming can create a narrow beam, which can concentrate signal power in a much smaller region. Combined with base station (gNB) requests and UE location data, an accurate beam can be generated to cover a desired area. 5G base station broadcasts can utilize a globally unique cell identifier (e.g., physical cell identifier), and a locally unique cell identifier (e.g., new radio cell global identifier) to facilitate beamforming and mitigate handover failure.


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