Apple patents phone method for choosing how to combine signals from two towers
This filing describes a way for a device to tell a cell tower what kind of signal processing it can handle. The tower then sends instructions on whether the phone should combine signals from two separate antennas or process them independently to improve reception.
In the filing’s own words
An apparatus configured to generate, for transmission to a base station, an indication of a processing capability comprising a joint processing capability, a separate processing capability, or both the joint processing capability and the separate processing capability, process, based on signals received from the base station, configuration information identifying, based on the indication of the processing capability, a suitable multi-transmission and reception point (TRP) transmission scheme and which processing capability to use and use the identified processing capability and multi-TRP transmission scheme for multi-TRP reception with a first TRP and a second TRP.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: generate, for transmission to a base station, an indication of a processing capability comprising a joint processing capability, a separate processing capability, or both the joint processing capability and the separate processing capability; process, based on signals received from the base station, configuration information identifying, based on the indication of the processing capability, a suitable multi-transmission and reception point (TRP) transmission scheme and which processing capability to use; and use the identified processing capability and multi-TRP transmission scheme for multi-TRP reception with a first TRP and a second TRP.
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- User Equipment Processing and Capabilities for Multiple Receive Chain Reception
- Publication number
- US20260313359A1
- Application number
- 19482952
- Filed
- May 10, 2024
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04W 8/22 Electricity & electronicsH04B 7/0626 Electricity & electronicsH04B 17/328 Electricity & electronicsH04B 17/346 Electricity & electronicsH04W 24/10 Electricity & electronicsMore from Apple in Networks & wireless
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