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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2017
Essential Products, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joseph Anthony Tate, San Jose, CA (US);
Xinrui Jiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew E. Rubin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Matthew Hershenson, Los Altos, CA (US);
Xiaoyu Miao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David John Evans, V, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jason Sean Gagne-Keats, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rebecca Schultz Zavin, Portola Valley, CA (US);
ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A handheld device can include antenna elements and a housing. The housing can include a processor, communications circuitry communicatively coupled to the plurality of antenna elements and the processor, and memory including instructions executable by the processor. The executable instructions can cause the handheld device to estimate a geographic location of the handheld device, configure the communications circuitry and/or the antenna elements for a communications resource. The communications resource can be selected based on the geographic location of the handheld device. The handheld device can be further caused to enable access to a wireless network by using the communication circuitry and the antenna elements as configured in accordance with the communications resource.