Method and system for intelligently controlling propagation environments in distributed transceiver communications
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- in a first communication device comprising a plurality of distributed transceivers, each distributed transceiver comprising one or more corresponding antenna arrays;
determining a location of the first communication device;
identifying one or more reflectors within a surrounding communication environment of said first communication device;
based on the determined locations of the first communication device and said identified one or more reflectors, configuring antenna patterns of the antenna arrays of a set of distributed transceivers in said plurality of distributed transceivers to associate each distributed transceiver in the set of distributed transceivers with an identified reflector to transmit a data stream to a second communication device using the distributed transceiver and the associated reflector, at least two distributed transceivers configured to transmit different data streams to the second communication device, said configuring comprising configuring the antenna arrays'"'"' beam patterns to mitigate cross interference between said different data streams; and
transmitting a plurality of data streams from the antenna arrays of the set of distributed transceivers of the first communication device to the second communication device.
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Abstract
A communication device comprising a plurality of distributed transceivers and one or more corresponding antenna arrays is operable to determine characteristics of one or more objects that are sensed within a surrounding communication environment of the communication device. The communication device may configure one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers and/or one or more of the corresponding antenna arrays to handle communication of one or more data streams based on the determined characteristics. Exemplary characteristics may comprise reflective property and/or refractive property of the sensed one or more objects within the surrounding communication environment of the communication device. The communication device may be operable to store the determined characteristics, corresponding temporal information and/or spatial information for the sensed one or more objects, and/or signal propagation characteristics within a surrounding communication environment of the communication device.
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38 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
in a first communication device comprising a plurality of distributed transceivers, each distributed transceiver comprising one or more corresponding antenna arrays; determining a location of the first communication device; identifying one or more reflectors within a surrounding communication environment of said first communication device; based on the determined locations of the first communication device and said identified one or more reflectors, configuring antenna patterns of the antenna arrays of a set of distributed transceivers in said plurality of distributed transceivers to associate each distributed transceiver in the set of distributed transceivers with an identified reflector to transmit a data stream to a second communication device using the distributed transceiver and the associated reflector, at least two distributed transceivers configured to transmit different data streams to the second communication device, said configuring comprising configuring the antenna arrays'"'"' beam patterns to mitigate cross interference between said different data streams; and transmitting a plurality of data streams from the antenna arrays of the set of distributed transceivers of the first communication device to the second communication device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A first communication device comprising:
a plurality of distributed transceivers, each distributed transceiver comprising one or more corresponding antenna arrays, the first communication device configured to; determine a location of the first communication device; identify one or more reflectors within a surrounding communication environment of said first communication device; based on the determined locations of the first communication device and said identified one or more reflectors, configure antenna patterns of the antenna arrays of a set of distributed transceivers in said plurality of distributed transceivers to associate each distributed transceiver in the set of distributed transceivers with an identified reflector to transmit a data stream to a second communication device using the distributed transceiver and the associated reflector, at least two distributed transceivers configured to transmit different data streams to the second communication device, said configuring comprising configuring the antenna arrays'"'"' beam patterns to mitigate cross interference between said different data streams; and transmit a plurality of data streams from the antenna arrays of the set of distributed transceivers of the first communication device to the second communication device. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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