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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee, De Meern, NL;
Albert Van Zelst, Woerden, NL;
Sameer Vermani, San Diego, CA (US);
Vincent Knowles Jones, IV, Redwood City, CA (US);
Simone Merlin, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A base station for communicating with multiple groups of wireless communication devices is described. The base station includes a processor and executable instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The base station determines a number of wireless communication devices. The base station also splits the number of wireless communication devices into groups. The base station further determines a precoding matrix for each group. The base station additionally transmits a beamformed signal to each group using the precoding matrix for each group.