Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Overlaying a coverage area of a cellular wireless network with a coverage area of an adaptive sectorization base station
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Application No.: US16857773Application Date: 2020-04-24
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Publication No.: US11196469B1Publication Date: 2021-12-07
- Inventor: Abhishek Tiwari
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agent Brian R. Short
- Main IPC: H04B7/04
- IPC: H04B7/04 ; H04B7/0495 ; H04B7/155 ; H04B7/06 ; H04B7/0408

Abstract:
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for overlaying a coverage area of a cellular wireless network with a coverage area of a sectorization base station are disclosed. One method includes providing, by a plurality of cellular base stations, wireless access to a plurality of wireless devices over a coverage area, providing, by a sectorization base station, wireless communication to the plurality of wireless devices over at least the coverage area, each sector of a plurality of antennas of the sectorization base station operates to cover a selectable coverage area as determined by a width of a beamforming pattern, identifying locations of each of the plurality of wireless devices, and selecting beamforming parameters of the beamforming pattern based at least on the locations of the plurality of wireless devices, wherein the selected beamforming parameters control at least a sector selection and the width of the beamforming pattern of the sector.
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