US 11,736,174 B2
Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB); Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke (GB); Brian Alexander Martin, Basingstoke (GB); and Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/712,270.
Application 17/712,270 is a continuation of application No. 16/346,137, granted, now 11,296,770, previously published as PCT/EP2017/077977, filed on Nov. 1, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 161985447 (EP), filed on Nov. 1, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0224396 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 7/02 (2018.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/0408 (2017.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/0695 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0408 (2013.01); H04B 7/063 (2013.01); H04B 7/0632 (2013.01); H04B 7/088 (2013.01); H04B 7/0888 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An infrastructure equipment, comprising:
transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals to one or more communications devices of a wireless communications network via a wireless access interface;
receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from one or more of the communications devices via the wireless access interface; and
controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to transmit or to receive the signals representing data, the controller circuitry being configured in combination with the receiver circuitry and the transmitter circuitry to:
communicate one or more candidate beams of signals with a communication device of the communications devices, the one or more candidate beams of signals used by the transmitter circuitry to transmit the data or by the receiver circuitry to receive the data; and
determine whether each candidate beam of the one or more candidate beams is to form a serving beam or a fallback beam.