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Sony patents antenna tech that helps phones pick better signal symbols

Sony describes a method for a network tower to tell connected devices which specific signal patterns are most likely to be used. This helps the devices decode the data more accurately by knowing the probability of each symbol in the transmission.

Why it mattersThis could improve the reliability of 5G and future wireless connections by helping devices interpret signals more efficiently.

In the filing’s own words

Various disclosed techniques pertain to serving multiple wireless communication devices using partitions of a reflective intelligent surface. Various disclosed techniques pertain to providing, to the wireless communication device, indications of transmission probabilities of symbol samples of an amplitude-phase shift keying, A-PSK, modulation alphabet.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method performed by an access node of a communication network, the method comprising: providing, to a wireless communication device of the communication network that is being served by the access node, one or more messages associated with an amplitude and phase-shift-keying (A-PSK) modulation used by the access node for transmitting, wherein the one or more messages are indicative of an alphabet of the A-PSK modulation and further indicative of one or more transmission probabilities of one or more symbol samples of the alphabet.

Facts

Company: Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
Official title: SERVING MULTIPLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES USING ACCESS NODE WITH REFLECTIVE INTELLIGENT SURFACE
Publication number: US20260291801A1
Application number: 19168401
Filed: Mar 27, 2024
Published: Sep 24, 2026
Inventors: 3
Claims: 21

Classified under

H04L 27/36 Electricity & electronics

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