The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

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:
Feb. 13, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yakun Sun, San Jose, CA (US);

Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Redwood City, CA (US);

Ehsan Haghani, Redwood City, CA (US);

Rohit U. Nabar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04L 25/02 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/088 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04L 25/0226 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods related to partial beam correspondence may be used to address potential limitations of beamforming wireless networks. A user equipment electronic device and/or wireless network identifies a subset of available transmitter beams for the user equipment electronic device that are indicated as similar to a downlink reference signal received at the user equipment electronic device from a wireless network node. The user equipment electronic device sweeps the subset of available transmitter beams for communication with the wireless network node and uses a best beam from the sweep to communicate with the wireless network node.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…