US 11,870,514 B2
Multi-user coordination
Andres Reial, Lomma (SE); Krishna Chitti, Lund (SE); Zhipeng Lin, Nanjing Jiangsu (CN); Athanasios Stavridis, Malmö (SE); and Robert Mark Harrison, Grapevine, TX (US)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/276,310
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Sep. 27, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/076164
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/065002, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2019/076164 (WO), filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0266045 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. H04B 7/0452 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04J 11/00 (2006.01); H04J 13/00 (2011.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/0452 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0686 (2013.01); H04J 11/0023 (2013.01); H04J 13/00 (2013.01); H04L 5/0035 (2013.01); H04J 2011/0003 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of a communication device configured with two or more multi-user coordination modes for communication with a plurality of users, the method comprising:
determining an available spatial selectivity for the plurality of users; and
selecting one of the two or more multi-user coordination modes based on the determined available spatial selectivity and a number of users of the plurality of users, wherein
selecting one of the two or more multi-user coordination modes comprises selecting a spatial multiple access mode when:
a number of available communication resources for the plurality of users is less than the number of users of the plurality of users, and
a number of available communication resources for each spatially separable group of users is higher than or equal to a number of users in the group.