公开(公告)号：US10530448B1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-07

申请号：US16235129

申请日：2018-12-28

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Cuong Tran ,  Robert Fairfield ,  Ajit Reddy ,  Dragan Samardzija

IPC: H01Q3/26 ,  H01Q3/24 ,  H04B7/04 ,  H04B7/02 ,  H04B7/06

Abstract: A switched-beam communication node (e.g., transmitter, receiver, or transceiver) has an antenna array, an (N×N) passive multibeamformer (e.g., Butler matrix (BM)), a phase network, a switch network, and a controller. The phase network has N phase shifters, one for each different beam port of the Butler matrix. The controller configures the node to support either (i) any one of N main beampatterns supported by the Butler matrix by controlling the switch network to select one of the phase shifters and its corresponding BM beam port or (ii) any one of up to at least (N−1) combined beampatterns by controlling the switch network to select two of the phase shifters and their two corresponding BM beam ports. Each combined beampattern is a combination of two phase-shifted main beampatterns. In some embodiments, the node can be configured to provide two concurrent beampatterns for transmit and/or receive operations, thereby supporting space-division multiple-access systems.

公开(公告)号：US20200280503A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-03

申请号：US16650843

申请日：2017-09-26

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Mikko Aleksi Uusitalo ,  Zexian Li ,  Dragan Samardzija ,  Harish Viswanathan

IPC: H04L12/26

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method comprising: using information associated with a first application in a first device, said first application being configured to communicate with a corresponding second application in a second device via a communication link, and information associated with said communication link to determine a modified output; and causing said modified output to be provided to said corresponding second application via said communication link.