Samsung patents method for tuning 5G signal beams to find devices
Samsung has filed a patent for a method that helps 5G base stations identify the correct signal settings, or beamforming parameters, needed to connect with a user's device. The system sends multiple synchronization signals and listens for a response from the device during specific time windows to determine which signal configuration works best.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device executed by a distributed unit (DU) includes at least one transceiver including a fronthaul transceiver and a processor. The electronic device transmits, to a radio unit (RU), information including a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks. The electronic device to receives, within a first association period from among a plurality of association periods, a physical random access channel (PRACH) signal regarding an SS/PBCH block selected by a terminal from among the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks, on the basis of a first beamforming parameter set from among a plurality of beamforming parameter sets, and receives, within a second association period, the PRACH signal regarding the selected SS/PBCH block on the basis of a second beamforming parameter set.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device including a distributed unit (DU), the DU comprising: at least one transceiver comprising a fronthaul transceiver, memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions, and at least one processor comprising processor circuitry, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: transmit information comprising a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks to a radio unit (RU), receive, based on a first beamforming parameter set among a plurality of beamforming parameter sets, a physical random access channel (PRACH) signal related to an SS/PBCH block selected by a terminal among the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks in a first association period among a plurality of association periods set for the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks through the RU, and receive, based on a second beamforming parameter set, distinct from the first beamforming parameter, among the plurality of beamforming parameter sets, the PRACH signal related to the selected SS/PBCH block in a second association period, distinct from the first association period, among the plurality of association periods through the RU.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING BEAMFORMING PARAMETER SET
- Publication number
- US20260332207A1
- Application number
- 19666496
- Filed
- May 4, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04B 7/0617 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/23 Electricity & electronicsH04W 74/0833 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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