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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wayne Ballantyne, Chandler, AZ (US);
Gregory Chance, Chandler, AZ (US);
Bruce Geren, Chandler, AZ (US);
Dror Markovich, Tel Aviv, IL;
Peter Pawliuk, Tempe, AZ (US);
Nebil Tanzi, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In a communication device and corresponding methods, a hierarchical, reduced power, beam search process includes a hierarchical activation of the radio frequency frontend (RFFE), transceiver, and baseband integrated circuit (BBIC) for a beam searching operations. For example, a first signal metric measurements can be performed to determine signal information. An operating mode can be determined based on the signal information. In a first operating mode, one or more second signal metric measurements can be performed for a subset of beamforming configurations of the wireless communication device to determine beamforming information. In a second operating mode, one or more third signal metric measurements can be performed on the beamforming configurations to determine the beamforming information.