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- Patent Title: Adaptive beamforming configuration methods and apparatus for wireless access points serving as handoff indication mechanisms in wireless local area networks
- Patent Title (中): 用于无线接入点的自适应波束成形配置方法和装置用作无线局域网中的切换指示机制
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Application No.: US12700118Application Date: 2010-02-04
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Publication No.: US07936724B2Publication Date: 2011-05-03
- Inventor: Vytautas Robertas Kezys
- Applicant: Vytautas Robertas Kezys
- Applicant Address: CA Waterloo, Ontario
- Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
- Current Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
- Current Assignee Address: CA Waterloo, Ontario
- Agent John J. Oskorep, Esq.
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00

Abstract:
In one illustrative example, a wireless access point of a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes an antenna array, a wireless transceiver array coupled to the antenna array, and one or more processors which are coupled to the wireless transceiver array. The one or more processors are adapted to operate the wireless access point in a configuration mode and a handoff indication mode. In the configuration mode, the one or more processors are adapted to operate the wireless access point to receive, via the wireless transceiver array, RF signals from one or more communication devices and determine and set wireless transceiver parameters for adjusting boundaries of an RF coverage region of the wireless access point based on these RF signals. In the handoff indication mode, the one or more processors set the wireless access point with the adjusted RF coverage region (adjusted from the configuration mode), where handoff indications are communicated in response to mobile devices leaving the WLAN coverage region through the adjusted RF coverage region for handoff to a wireless wide area network (WWAN).
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