US 12,489,524 B2
Data communication connector
Marc Harper, Snohomish, WA (US); Apoorva Sharma, Sammamish, WA (US); and Daniel Dhondt, Sammamish, WA (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/957,008.
Prior Publication US 2024/0113774 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. H04B 7/24 (2006.01); H01Q 1/22 (2006.01); H01Q 21/08 (2006.01); H04B 1/38 (2015.01); H01R 13/62 (2006.01); H01R 13/66 (2006.01); H01R 43/26 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/24 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/2258 (2013.01); H01Q 21/08 (2013.01); H04B 1/38 (2013.01); H01R 13/6205 (2013.01); H01R 13/6691 (2013.01); H01R 43/26 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A first data connector for communicating a data signal with a second data connector, the first data connector comprising:
a data communication interface including adjacent radiofrequency antenna elements, wherein a plurality of the adjacent radiofrequency antenna elements forms a radiofrequency data antenna array and another radiofrequency antenna element of the adjacent radiofrequency antenna elements forms a radiofrequency control channel antenna element, the data signal being split at the first data connector into subchannel signals, each radiofrequency antenna element of the radiofrequency data antenna array being configured to communicate bidirectionally a subchannel signal of the subchannel signals to a corresponding radiofrequency data antenna element of a data communication interface of the second data connector, each subchannel signal of the subchannel signals including a different portion of the data signal, wherein the subchannel signals are mergeable into the data signal at the second data connector, the radiofrequency control channel antenna element being configured to manage data communications through the radiofrequency data antenna array; and
an attachment interface positioned on the first data connector and configured to removably attach the first data connector to the second data connector from a physically unattached configuration to a physically attached configuration, wherein, in the physically attached configuration, each radiofrequency data antenna element of the data communication interface of the first data connector is configured to physically align with a corresponding radio data antenna element of the data communication interface of the second data connector to which the radiofrequency data antenna element communicates its subchannel signal bidirectionally.