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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2021
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Jianhua Mo, Allen, TX (US);
Boon Loong Ng, Plano, TX (US);
Anum Ali, Plano, TX (US);
Vutha Va, Plano, TX (US);
Daehee Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 72/1268 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04B 7/0408 (2017.01); H04B 7/0456 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1268 (2013.01); H04B 7/0408 (2013.01); H04L 5/0058 (2013.01); H04W 52/0261 (2013.01); H04B 7/0456 (2013.01);
Abstract
A user equipment (UE) is configured to vary a number of chains in uplink or downlink communications with a base station (BS). The UE includes a processor coupled to a transceiver. The processor is configured to: identify a full-chain beam for a downlink reception based on a beam sweeping; determine a number of activated chains for an uplink transmission; and determine a sub-chain uplink transmission beam.