Patent ID: 11901955
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A receiver node for connecting to a switching network, the receiver node comprising:
a communication interface for connecting to the switching network, the switching network having a variable switching configuration for causing successive activation and deactivation of multiple channels of the switching network;
one or more processors configured to, in a training phase:
receive from a transmitter node, via one of the channels, a distorted training signal,
compare the distorted training signal with a known training sequence to determine one or more transmit-side equalizer (EQ) coefficients for applying at the transmitter node to reduce distortion of the channel, and
transmit the transmit-side EQ coefficients to the transmitter node for use in a communications phase;
wherein the one or more processors are configured, in the communications phase, to apply adaptive equalization to signals received from the transmitter node to account for time-varying channel conditions of the channel between that receiver node and the transmitter node.