US 11,700,042 B2
Communication load balancing using distributed antenna beam steering techniques
Laurent Desclos, San Diego, CA (US); Jeffrey Shamblin, San Marcos, CA (US); and Olivier Pajona, Antibes (FR)
Assigned to Kyocera AVX Components (San Diego), Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by Ethertronics, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 25, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/693,908.
Application 16/693,908 is a continuation of application No. 15/016,245, filed on Feb. 4, 2016, granted, now 10,491,282.
Application 15/016,245 is a continuation in part of application No. 14/109,837, filed on Dec. 17, 2013, granted, now 9,609,654, issued on Mar. 28, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/112,090, filed on Feb. 4, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/738,325, filed on Dec. 17, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2020/0186219 A1, Jun. 11, 2020
Int. Cl. H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/10 (2017.01); H04W 36/22 (2009.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 36/06 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01)
CPC H04B 7/0617 (2013.01) [H04B 7/10 (2013.01); H04W 36/22 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 36/06 (2013.01); H04W 36/32 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of load balancing in a communications network comprising a system controller, a plurality of base terminals, and a plurality of wireless client devices, at least one wireless client device of the plurality of wireless client devices comprising a modal antenna configurable in a plurality of radiation modes, the method comprising:
surveying, by the system controller, communication link performance between the at least one wireless client device and one or more base terminals of the plurality of base terminals when the modal antenna of the at least one wireless client device is configured in each of the plurality of radiation modes, wherein each of the plurality of radiation modes has a different radiation pattern; and
selecting, by the system controller, one of the plurality of radiation modes as a selected mode for the modal antenna of the at least one wireless client device to load balance the communications network based, at least in part, on the communication link performance between the at least one wireless client device and the one or more base terminals when the modal antenna of the at least one wireless client device is configured in each of the plurality of radiation modes,
wherein in the selected mode:
downlink communication performance is improved relative to uplink communication performance for one or more of the plurality of base terminals; or
uplink communication performance for one or more base terminals of the plurality of base terminals is improved relative to downlink communication performance for the one or more base terminals.