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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:
Mar. 01, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2019
Applicant:

Sprint Spectrum Lp, Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Vanil Parihar, Overland Park, KS (US);

Sreekar Marupaduga, Overland Park, KS (US);

Nitesh Manchanda, Overland Park, KS (US);

Rashmi Kumar, Herndon, VA (US);

Assignee:

T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/06 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/06 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04B 7/0608 (2013.01); H04W 72/0406 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Dedicating antenna elements to specific wireless devices by identifying specific wireless devices that meet a set of criteria, such as relay nodes, stationary wireless devices, data-only wireless devices, and respectively dedicating a separate portion of antenna elements for communicating with each specific wireless device. The separate portion of antenna elements is selected based on being configured to utilize a bandwidth that meets a threshold bandwidth, such as a 40 MHz bandwidth offered in 5G communications.


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