Sony patents method for managing phone signal strength in 5G
Sony has filed a patent for a method that helps mobile devices manage how much power they use to send data back to a cell tower. The device receives instructions on how to split its signal across different 'beams' and then reports back the actual power level it is using.
In the filing’s own words
A method carried out in a user equipment, UE, for facilitating configuration of uplink, UL, output power of radio transmission from the UE, wherein the method comprises: receiving ( 402), from an access network, a first message indicative of a first configuration of maximum output power for at least a first UL beam and a second UL beam; transmitting ( 406), to the access network based on the first message, information indicative of resulting output power of using the first UL beam and the second UL beam according to the first configuration.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method carried out in a user equipment (UE) for facilitating configuration of uplink (UL) output power of radio transmission from the UE, wherein the method comprises: receiving, from an access network, a first message indicative of a first configuration of maximum output power for at least a first UL beam and a second UL beam; transmitting, to the access network based on the first message, information indicative of resulting output power of using the first UL beam and the second UL beam according to the first configuration.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FACILITATING CONFIGURATION OF UPLINK OUTPUT POWER OF WIRELESS TERMINAL
- Publication number
- US20260304326A1
- Application number
- 19480815
- Filed
- Apr 12, 2024
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
H04W 52/146 Electricity & electronicsH04W 52/367 Electricity & electronicsH04W 52/42 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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