Sony patents method for relay devices to summarize network data
Sony describes a way for a device that acts as a middleman between a wireless network and other phones or gadgets to collect data on how well it connects to those devices. Instead of sending every single piece of data to the main network, the relay device combines the information into a single, summarized report before sending it.
In the filing’s own words
A method of operating a communications device acting as a relay node configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a wireless communications network and to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a plurality of remote communications devices is provided. The method comprises accumulating a plurality of measurement reports each indicating measurements of a communications channel between the relay communications device and one of the remote communications devices, generating an accumulated measurement report comprising indications of a selected one or more of the accumulated plurality of measurement reports, and transmitting, to the wireless communications network, the generated accumulated measurement report.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of operating a communications device acting as a relay node configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a wireless communications network and to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a plurality of remote communications devices, the method comprising accumulating a plurality of measurement reports each indicating measurements of a communications channel between the relay communications device and one of the remote communications devices, generating an accumulated measurement report comprising indications of a selected one or more of the accumulated plurality of measurement reports, and transmitting, to the wireless communications network, the generated accumulated measurement report.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- METHODS, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, AND INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT
- Publication number
- US20260261894A1
- Application number
- 18719870
- Filed
- Dec 6, 2022
- Published
- Sep 3, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04W 24/10 Electricity & electronicsH04W 36/0058 Electricity & electronicsH04W 88/04 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in Networks & wireless
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