US 11,700,052 B2
Repeater device with multi-range antenna array and method of operation of repeater device
Alfred Grau Besoli, Irvine, CA (US); Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Newport Beach, CA (US); Brima Ibrahim, Laguna Hills, CA (US); Farid Shirinfar, Granada Hills, CA (US); Maryam Rofougaran, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US); Nemat Dolatsha, San Jose, CA (US); and Yifan Wang, South Brisbane (AU)
Assigned to Movandi Corporation, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Movandi Corporation, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/887,556.
Application 17/887,556 is a continuation of application No. 17/459,528, filed on Aug. 27, 2021, granted, now 11,444,684.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/073,077, filed on Sep. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/070,927, filed on Aug. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0393758 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 5/12 (2006.01); H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/15528 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0608 (2013.01); H04B 7/0691 (2013.01); H04B 7/0695 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A repeater device, comprising:
a first antenna array that comprises a plurality of antenna elements, wherein the plurality of antenna elements is sectioned into a plurality of different sub-arrays;
the first antenna array further comprises a plurality of antenna configuration modes, wherein each antenna configuration mode of the plurality of antenna configuration modes defines a unique configuration of one or more sub-arrays of the plurality of different sub-arrays; and
control circuitry configured to:
select one of the plurality of antenna configuration modes;
based on the selection of one of the plurality of antenna configuration modes, activate a first set of antenna elements of the first antenna array and deactivate a second set of antenna elements of the first antenna array, wherein the first set of antenna elements corresponds to a first configuration of one or more sub-arrays of the first antenna array; and
direct a beam of radio frequency (RF) signal to a user equipment (UE) from the first configuration of the one or more sub-arrays of the first antenna array.