Patent ID: 11909125
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. An electronic device configured to communicate with a wireless base station having antennas, the electronic device comprising:
a phased antenna array; and
control circuitry configured to
receive, using a first set of antennas in the phased antenna array, first downlink signals within a Frequency Range 2 (FR2) frequency range of a 5G New Radio (NR) communications protocol from the wireless base station,
transmit, using the phased antenna array, beam quality reports to the wireless base station, the beam quality reports being generated in response to reception of the first downlink signals by the first set of antennas in the phased antenna array,
transmit, using the phased antenna array, uplink signals to the wireless base station that include information about receive signal beams formable by the phased antenna array, and
receive, using the phased antenna array, second downlink signals from the wireless base station, wherein the second downlink signals instruct the electronic device to use a second set of antennas in the phased antenna array to form an optimal receive signal beam identified by the wireless base station based on the beam quality reports and the information about the receive signal beams transmitted by the phased antenna array, wherein the second set of antennas includes a different number of antennas than the first set of antennas.