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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2021
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Sourjya Dutta, San Diego, CA (US);
Junyi Li, Fairless Hills, PA (US);
Kapil Gulati, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Navid Abedini, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Shuanshuan Wu, San Diego, CA (US);
Anantharaman Balasubramanian, San Diego, CA (US);
Preeti Kumari, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for establishing directional communications between two communication nodes via a configurable reflective surface. In some aspects, an assisting node (AN) may control a reflection characteristic (which may dictate or influence how signals reflect off of the configurable reflective surface) in accordance with parameters or configurations for directional communication between the two communication nodes. For example, the AN may use a first beam for directional communication with the first node and a second beam for directional communication with the second node, and the AN may control the reflection characteristic in accordance with an inferred incident direction of signaling at the configurable reflective surface and a desired reflected direction of the signaling from the configurable reflective surface that are associated with the first beam and the second beam, respectively.