US 12,244,344 B2
Link establishment in a multi-cell wireless network
Michel Germe, Cormelles le Royal (FR); Haimin Tao, Eindhoven (NL); Andreas Felix Alfred Bluschke, Eindhoven (NL); and Christian Jordan, Venlo (NL)
Assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/926,011
Filed by SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed May 18, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/063070
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/233871, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20176010 (EP), filed on May 22, 2020; and application No. 20179874 (EP), filed on Jun. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0179300 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. H04B 10/114 (2013.01); H04B 10/116 (2013.01)
CPC H04B 10/116 (2013.01) [H04B 10/1149 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method carried out by an end device of establishing a data link by selecting one out of a plurality of access points in a multi-cell wireless communication network, wherein the plurality of access points comprises at least one optical access point and one radio frequency, RF, based access point, the method comprising the end device:
monitoring an optical signaling channel for occurrence of one or more identification codes, wherein each one of the one or more identification codes is used to uniquely identify an optical access point, wherein the one or more identification codes are orthogonal to each other;
selecting an access point for establishing the data link, according to the detection of the one or more identification codes, and wherein the data link is established on another channel different from the optical signaling channel in frequency; and the other channel can be either an optical data channel or an RF data channel;
wherein the selection of the access point further comprising:
selecting a RF based access point when no identification code is detected; and
selecting an optical access point upon the detection of at least one identification code, and carrying out the further steps of:
adjusting one or more settings corresponding to the selected optical access point, wherein the one or more settings comprise at least one hardware configuration; and
establishing the data link on the other channel with the selected optical access point after the adjustment.