Sony patents method to predict radio conditions for better wireless signals
Sony describes a way for cell towers to guess how well a connection will work before sending data. The system looks at network details to predict the quality of the radio link and then tells your phone how to adjust its settings for the best performance.
In the filing’s own words
A method of operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a communications device is provided. The method comprises predicting, based on one or more characteristics of the wireless communications network, one or more properties of a radio channel between the communications device and either the infrastructure equipment or one of one or more other communications devices, determining, based on the predicted properties of the radio channel, one or more transmission parameters to be used for a transmission over the radio channel, and transmitting, to the communications device, a control signal comprising an indication of the one or more transmission parameters to be used for the transmission over the radio channel.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a communications device, the method comprising predicting, based on one or more characteristics of the wireless communications network, one or more properties of a radio channel between the communications device and either the infrastructure equipment or one of one or more other communications devices, determining, based on the predicted properties of the radio channel, one or more transmission parameters to be used for a transmission over the radio channel, and transmitting, to the communications device, a control signal comprising an indication of the one or more transmission parameters to be used for the transmission over the radio channel.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- METHODS, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES
- Publication number
- US20260270727A1
- Application number
- 19489281
- Filed
- Jul 10, 2024
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 23
Classified under
H04W 24/02 Electricity & electronicsH04L 1/0003 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/12 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/20 Electricity & electronicsH04W 92/18 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in Networks & wireless
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