US 12,107,661 B2
Control method for smart repeaters
Junyi Li, Chester, NJ (US); Ashwin Sampath, Skillman, NJ (US); and Navid Abedini, Somerset, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 31, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/945,507.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/881,823, filed on Aug. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0036764 A1, Feb. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01)
CPC H04B 7/15528 (2013.01) [H04W 16/28 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications by a first wireless device comprising a repeater, comprising:
receiving, from a second wireless device, a first radio frequency (RF) signal of a first bandwidth for forwarding to a user equipment (UE), wherein the first bandwidth comprises a first bandwidth part (BWP);
extracting control information from the first BWP of the first RF signal, wherein the control information indicates beam weights for the first wireless device to use to at least one of receive a second RF signal from the second wireless device or forward the first RF signal to the UE;
amplifying and forwarding the first RF signal without extracting information from the first bandwidth that does not include the first BWP;
selecting, based on the control information, at least one of: one or more receive beams or one or more transmit beams;
selecting, based on the control information, a signal direction for the one or more receive beams or the one or more transmit beams; and
using the one or more selected beams to at least one of: receive the second RF signal from the second wireless device or forward the first RF signal to the UE.