DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASED ON AN ORIENTATION-RELATED ATTRIBUTE OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20140140426A1
• Filed: 08/22/2011
• Published: 05/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Alpert, Yaron, Dinur, Nati, Sofer, Menashe
• Granted Patent: US 9,473,220 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/267
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0404 the mobile station comprising multiple antennas, e.g. to provide uplink diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0689 using different transmission schemes, at least one of them being a diversity transmission scheme
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of controlling wireless communication based on an orientation-related attribute of a wireless communication device. For example, a wireless communication device may include a controller to receive from a sensor orientation-related information indicating an orientation-related attribute of the wireless communication device, and to control an antenna scheme of one or more antennas of the wireless communication device based on said orientation-related information.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device comprising:

a controller to receive from a sensor orientation-related information indicating an orientation-related attribute of said wireless communication device, and to control an antenna scheme of one or more antennas of said wireless communication device based on said orientation-related information.

2. The wireless communication device of claim 1, wherein said controller is to adjust said antenna scheme based on a change in said orientation-related attribute during communication with another wireless communication device over a communication link.

3. The wireless communication device of claim 2 wherein, if the change in said orientation-related attribute is equal to or lesser than a predefined threshold, said controller is to switch from a current antenna scheme to a backup antenna scheme based on communication link quality.

4. The wireless communication device of claim 2, wherein said controller is to adjust a weighted antenna scheme of said antennas according to the change in the orientation-related attribute of said wireless communication device.

5. The wireless communication device of claim 4, wherein said controller is to adjust said weighted scheme by adjusting a directionality of said antenna scheme opposite to a directionality of said change.

6. The wireless communication device of claim 1, wherein said controller is to control said antenna scheme during communication with another wireless communication device over a communication link, and wherein said controller is to control said antenna scheme by causing said device to switch between at least first and second antennas, based on said orientation-related information.

7. The wireless communication device of claim 1, wherein said controller is to select, based on said orientation-related information, whether or not to perform one or more wireless communications including at least one of a connectivity-switching operation for switching connectivity to another wireless communication device, a scanning operation for detecting other wireless communication devices.

8. The wireless communication device of claim 1, wherein said orientation-related information comprises information indicative of at least one of an orientation of said wireless communication device, a movement of said wireless communication device and a rotation of said wireless communication device.

9. The wireless communication device of claim 1 comprising said sensor.

10. The wireless communication device of claim 1, wherein said sensor is external to said device.

11. The wireless communication device of claim 1, wherein said controller comprises at least one of an antenna controller and a base-band controller.

12. A method comprising:

receiving orientation-related information indicating a orientation-related attribute of a first wireless communication device communicating over a wireless communication link with a second wireless communication device; and

selecting, based on said orientation-related information, whether or not to perform one or more wireless communication operations at said first wireless communication device, the wireless communication operations including at least one of a connectivity-switching operation for switching connectivity to a third wireless communication device, and a scanning operation for detecting other wireless communication devices.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said selecting comprises performing said operations only if a change in said orientation-related attribute is equal to or greater than a predefined threshold

14. The method of claim 12, wherein at least one of said second and third wireless communication devices comprises and access point.

15. The method of claim 12 comprising controlling a communication scheme of one or more antennas of said first wireless communication device based on said orientation-related attribute.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein, if a change in said orientation-related attribute is equal to or lesser than a predefined threshold, said controlling comprises switching from a current communication scheme to a backup communication scheme based on communication link quality between said first and second wireless communication devices.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein said controlling comprises controlling a weighted antenna scheme of said antennas based on said orientation-related attribute.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein controlling said weighted antenna scheme comprises adjusting a directionality of a beamforming scheme opposite to a directionality of said change.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein controlling said communication scheme comprises switching between at least first and second antennas based on said orientation-related attribute.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein said orientation-related information comprises information indicative of at least one of an orientation of said first wireless communication device, a movement of said first wireless communication device and a rotation of said first wireless communication device.