US 12,407,394 B2
Wireless communication with quasi-omni and directional beams
Tamer Adel Kadous, San Diego, CA (US); and Siddhartha Mallik, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to Virewirx, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by Virewirx, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/644,162.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/126,427, filed on Dec. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0191852 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 74/0808 (2024.01)
CPC H04W 72/046 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/0689 (2013.01); H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04B 7/06952 (2023.05); H04B 7/06966 (2023.05); H04W 74/0808 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless communication device comprising:
at least one antenna; and
a processor in communication with the at least one antenna, wherein the processor is configured to cause the wireless communication device to:
wirelessly transmit a quasi-omni beam to a network node in a training mode such that the quasi-omni beam is time division multiplexed with a second quasi-omni beam received by the network node from another wireless communication device in a time slot for the training mode;
select a directional receive beam based on a third quasi-omni beam wirelessly transmitted by the network node during another training mode, wherein the wireless communication device is arranged to receive directional beams while the network node wirelessly transmits the third quasi-omni beam;
determine to wirelessly transmit a directional beam during a data transmission mode based on stored information identifying the directional receive beam to invoke reciprocity, wherein the directional beam corresponds to the directional receive beam; and
wirelessly transmit the directional beam to the network node in the data transmission mode, wherein the quasi-omni beam and the directional beam are each associated with a radio frequency signal having a frequency of at least 20 gigahertz.