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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:
Aug. 04, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2021
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Yusheng Liu, Lund, SE;

Mats Åhlander, Solna, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01);
Abstract

A method is disclosed for spatial resource selection from a plurality of spatial resources. The method comprises, for each of least one spatial resource of the plurality of spatial resources, determining, for each of multiple time instances, a quality state for the spatial resource, based on reference signals received on the spatial resource, and filtering the quality states, to determine a filtered quality state value for the spatial resource. The method further comprises determining whether the spatial resource is to be considered for spatial resource selection based on the filtered quality state value. The spatial resources may be beams of a beam-forming application, or antennas of a multi-antenna arrangement, or multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) streams, for example. The reference signals may comprise one or more of uplink reference signals, sounding reference signals, demodulation reference signals, and phase tracking reference signals. Corresponding apparatus, network node (e.g., base station), and computer program product are also disclosed.


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