US 12,087,997 B2
Antenna systems for controlled coverage in buildings
Stephen Clark Brown, San Mateo, CA (US); John Sanford, Escondido, CA (US); Erich R. Klawuhn, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Dhairya Shrivastava, Los Altos, CA (US); Robert T. Rozbicki, Saratoga, CA (US); Daniel Loy Purdy, Benicia, CA (US); Todd Daniel Antes, San Jose, CA (US); and Todd Gray, Wilmington, DE (US)
Assigned to View, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/609,671
Filed by View, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US)
PCT Filed May 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/032269
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/227702, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/850,993, filed on May 21, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/845,764, filed on May 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0231399 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/12 (2006.01); H01Q 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01)
CPC H01Q 1/1221 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/007 (2013.01); H04B 7/15507 (2013.01); H04W 84/047 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A data communications network in a building comprising one or more external antennas, wherein:
at least one of the external antennas is associated with a window, a sky sensor or a digital architectural element and is disposed on a roof or exterior wall of the building;
the one or more external antennas are coupled to a network infrastructure of the building via one or more data carrying lines and/or wireless links; and
the network infrastructure comprises the one or more data carrying lines, one or more network switches, and at least one control panel, the at least one control panel being coupled to one or more window controllers configured to control one or more electrically switchable windows.