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Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2018
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:
Assignee:

QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0417 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0417 (2013.01); H04B 7/063 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/0634 (2013.01); H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04B 7/088 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for signaling a receive antenna mode to use during beamforming training procedure. For example, an apparatus for wireless communications, may generally include a processing system configured to generate a first frame having one or more beamforming training fields to be output for transmission to a wireless device using a directional transmit antenna mode and an indication whether the wireless device is to be in an Omni-directional receive antenna mode to receive the one or more beamforming training fields, and a first interface configured to output the first frame for transmission.


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