Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for beamforming
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Application No.: US14424121Application Date: 2012-08-31
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Publication No.: US10050686B2Publication Date: 2018-08-14
- Inventor: Frederick Vook , Amitabha Ghosh , Timothy Thomas
- Applicant: Frederick Vook , Amitabha Ghosh , Timothy Thomas
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- Agency: Harrington & Smith
- International Application: PCT/US2012/053293 WO 20120831
- International Announcement: WO2014/035412 WO 20140306
- Main IPC: H04B7/04
- IPC: H04B7/04 ; H04B7/0456 ; H04B7/06 ; H04L5/00 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W72/08 ; H04B7/10

Abstract:
Systems and techniques for carrier aggregated beamforming using elevation control. A base station determines a first elevation to be used for transmission to a user device using a first carrier, for example, based on information received from the user device. A second elevation, for transmission to the user device based on the second carrier, is determined based at least in part on the elevation information determined for the first carrier. The first and second carriers may be used by the same base station or by different base stations, and using elevation information determined for the first carrier to determine elevation information for the second carrier avoids computation and signaling needed for separate determination of the elevation information for the second carrier.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150229375A1 Methods and Apparatus for Beamforming Public/Granted day:2015-08-13
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