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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2011
Yibo Jiang, San Diego, CA (US);
Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, San Diego, CA (US);
Jilei Hou, San Diego, CA (US);
Jibing Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Yibo Jiang, San Diego, CA (US);
Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, San Diego, CA (US);
Jilei Hou, San Diego, CA (US);
Jibing Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for enabling uplink beamforming transmit diversity is provided. The method may include receiving, by a wireless communications device (WCD), a beamforming weight vector in response to transmission by the WCD of two or more pilot channels, applying the received beamforming weight vector to at least one of a first of the two or more pilot channels, one or more data channels, or one or more control channels, and transmitting, using two or more antennas, at least one of the one or more data channels or at least one of the one or more control channels, wherein the number of pilot channels is greater than or equal to the number of antennas.