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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2022
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation of America, New York, NY (US);
Li-Hsiang Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohamed Abouelseoud, Burlingame, CA (US);
Liangxiao Xin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Qing Xia, San Jose, CA (US);
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for supporting simultaneous MultiUser (MU) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) operations utilizing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) with Uplink OFDMA Random Access (UORA). Access Points (APs) trigger and obtain short PPDUs from the stations to learn spatial filtering patterns that are utilized in adjusting antenna phase differences to obtain minimum/maximum energy from this BSR. The APs determine favored and unfavored directions of communication, which are conveyed to non-AP UORA stations as channel estimation signals. The UORA stations base broadcasting on strengths of channel estimation signals to determine eligible UORA resource units. The UORA procedure to secondary APs allows a primary AP to trigger a UL-MU MIMO transmission with the number of spatial streams exceeding the number of antennas at the primary AP.