Sony patents relay device that measures signal quality for better connections
Sony describes an electronic device that acts as a relay between two other devices. It sends specific messages to measure how strong and clear the signal is on both the sending and receiving sides.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device including circuitry configured to transmit and/or receive, at least first information corresponding to a quality of a communication with a transmission communication device and/or second information corresponding to a quality of a communication with a reception communication device, wherein the first information includes at least a first message for channel state information (CSI) measurement or feedback of CSI information, and wherein the second information includes at least a second message for the CSI measurement or the feedback of CSI information.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device, comprising: circuitry configured to transmit and/or receive at least first information corresponding to a quality of a communication with a transmission communication device and/or second information corresponding to a quality of a communication with a reception communication device, wherein the first information includes at least a first message for channel state information (CSI) measurement or feedback of CSI information, and wherein the second information includes at least a second message for the CSI measurement or feedback of CSI information.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- RELAY DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
- Publication number
- US20260280637A1
- Application number
- 19167869
- Filed
- Apr 17, 2024
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04B 7/0626 Electricity & electronicsH04W 64/00 Electricity & electronicsH04W 92/18 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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