US 12,309,761 B2
Real time control of an electronically configurable deflector
Yehonatan Dallal, Kfar Saba (IL); Ran Berliner, Kfar-Aviv (IL); and Shay Landis, Hod Hasharon (IL)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/474,636.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/079,162, filed on Sep. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0086820 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/046 (2013.01) [H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications at a passive channel engineering device, comprising:
receiving, from a network entity, first control signaling that indicates a plurality of beam shaping configurations for the passive channel engineering device to perform beam shaping and deflection of signals transmitted from the network entity to a respective plurality of user equipment, wherein the first control signaling indicates a plurality of time periods associated with the passive channel engineering device deflecting and beam shaping the signals in a plurality of directions of the respective plurality of user equipment; and
configuring the passive channel engineering device to beam shape and deflect received signal energy in a first direction of a user equipment of the respective plurality of user equipment in accordance with a first beam shaping configuration of the plurality of beam shaping configurations during a first time period of the plurality of time periods.