Sony patents method for managing directional signals in wireless networks
Sony describes a method for a device to send multiple focused signals, called directional beams, to a network tower on a specific frequency band reserved only for sending data. The tower then measures these signals and sends back the results on a different frequency band used for both sending and receiving.
In the filing’s own words
A method of operating a communications device for transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, from the infrastructure equipment on a first carrier for the communications device, an indication of uplink resources for transmitting a plurality of directional uplink beams to the infrastructure equipment on an second carrier for the communications device. The second carrier is an uplink-only carrier. The method comprises transmitting the plurality of directional uplink beams to the infrastructure equipment on the second carrier in accordance with the uplink resources indicated by the infrastructure equipment. The method comprises receiving, from the infrastructure equipment on the first carrier, an indication of a result of measurements performed on the plurality of directional uplink beams transmitted on the second carrier.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of operating a communications device for transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network, the method comprising receiving, from the infrastructure equipment on a first carrier for the communications device, an indication of uplink resources for transmitting a plurality of directional uplink beams to the infrastructure equipment on a second carrier for the communications device, the second carrier being an uplink-only carrier, transmitting the plurality of directional uplink beams to the infrastructure equipment on the second carrier in accordance with the uplink resources indicated by the infrastructure equipment, and receiving, from the infrastructure equipment on the first carrier, an indication of a result of measurements performed on the plurality of directional uplink beams transmitted on the second carrier.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- Methods, communications devices and infrastructure equipment
- Patent number
- US12739016B2
- Application number
- 18846297
- Filed
- Mar 3, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04B 7/06966 Electricity & electronicsH04B 7/06964 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/046 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/542 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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