Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Site survey for wireless base station placement
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Application No.: US16798307Application Date: 2020-02-22
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Publication No.: US11272377B1Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: Pratheep Bondalapati , Abhishek Tiwari , Rohan Ramakrishnan , Duong Pham , Julius Kusuma , Farbod Tabatabai , Ali Yazdan
- Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agent Brian R. Short
- Main IPC: H04W16/18
- IPC: H04W16/18 ; H04W16/28 ; H04L27/26 ; H04B7/06 ; H04B7/08

Abstract:
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for surveying a site are disclosed. One method includes transmitting, by a ground unit, wireless signals while a directionally adjustable beam-forming antenna of the ground unit changes a beam direction of the transmission of the wireless signals to N beam directions, wherein the directionally adjustable beam-forming antenna includes a known motion, receiving and measuring, by an elevated unit, a magnitude and phase of the wireless signals transmitted by the ground unit through the N beam directions, determining N complex receive power representations wherein each complex receive power representation includes the measured magnitude and phase of the received wireless signals corresponding with each of the N beam directions, and determining a receive power summation comprising performing a complex summation of the N complex receive power representations.
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