US 12,237,569 B2
Facilitating user equipment beamforming control
Sami Hakola, Kempele (FI); Jorma Kaikkonen, Oulu (FI); Juha Karjalainen, Oulu (FI); Mihai Enescu, Espoo (FI); and Timo Koskela, Oulu (FI)
Assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/975,369.
Application 17/975,369 is a continuation of application No. 16/147,228, filed on Sep. 28, 2018, granted, now 11,522,274.
Prior Publication US 2023/0299467 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 1/246 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1698 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
providing, by a user equipment that includes a plurality of antenna panels, antenna panel usage information to a base station, the antenna panel usage information indicative of which of the plurality of antenna panels are in at least one of an active transmit state or an active receive state;
receiving, by the user equipment, a request for a layer 1 reference symbol received power measurement and an indication of at least one antenna panel in the active receive state to be used to make the layer 1 reference symbol received power measurement on a downlink; and
sending, by the user equipment, a response to the base station, the response including the layer 1 reference symbol received power measurement on the downlink and an indication of at least one antenna panel in the active receive state used to make the layer 1 reference symbol received power measurement on the downlink.