Samsung patents phone tech to switch signal paths mid-transmission
The filing describes a mobile device that uses two separate groups of signal processing hardware to send data to a cell tower. The phone starts a transmission on one group, then switches to a second group for the next part of the signal based on instructions from the network.
In the filing’s own words
A terminal comprises a transceiver, transmission signal processing blocks comprising a plurality of first transmission signal processing blocks in a first transmission signal processing block group and a plurality of second transmission signal processing blocks in a second transmission signal processing block group, and a processor, and the processor is configured to transmit, to a base station, a first signal through the first transmission signal processing block group, activate, based on transmission configuration information received from the base station, at least one of the plurality of second transmission signal processing blocks, and based on completion of the transmitting of the first signal, transmit, to the base station, a second signal associated with the first signal through the second transmission signal processing block group, based on scheduling information received from the base station.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A terminal comprising: a transceiver; transmission signal processing blocks comprising a plurality of first transmission signal processing blocks in a first transmission signal processing block group and a plurality of second transmission signal processing blocks in a second transmission signal processing block group; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: transmit, to a base station, a first signal through the first transmission signal processing block group; activate, based on transmission configuration information received from the base station, at least one of the plurality of second transmission signal processing blocks; and based on completion of the transmitting of the first signal, transmit, to the base station, a second signal associated with the first signal through the second transmission signal processing block group, based on scheduling information received from the base station.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING TRANSMISSION SWITCHING AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260304397A1
- Application number
- 19334291
- Filed
- Sep 19, 2025
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04W 72/0453 Electricity & electronicsH04W 24/02 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung 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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