US 12,149,316 B2
Beam switching and antenna array configurations for near field communications
Vasanthan Raghavan, West Windsor Township, NJ (US); Juergen Cezanne, Ocean Township, NJ (US); Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, San Diego, CA (US); Yu-Chin Ou, San Diego, CA (US); and Junyi Li, Fairless Hills, PA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/305,067.
Prior Publication US 2024/0356612 A1, Oct. 24, 2024
Int. Cl. H04B 7/06 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/0634 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0686 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:
one or more memories storing processor-readable code; and
one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and operable to cause the UE to:
transmit, to a network entity, a beam group indicator, the beam group indicator indicating a first beam group of a plurality of beam groups that collectively include a plurality of candidate communication beams, each beam group of the plurality of beam groups including one or more respective candidate communication beams of the plurality of candidate communication beams;
communicate, at a first time, with the network entity via a first beam of the one or more candidate communication beams of the first beam group in association with a distance between the UE and the network entity being greater than a first threshold of a set of one or more thresholds; and
perform, at a second time in association with the distance being less than the first threshold, a beam switching operation associated with communicating with the network entity via a second beam of the one or more candidate communication beams of the first beam group.