Patent ID: 11929802
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B | IPC B  H

Claim 9:
10. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising:
a modem comprising an antenna port;
antennas configured to generate a directional transmission pattern connected to the antenna port, the antennas including (a) an array of omni-directional antennas and (b) multiple directional antennas;
beam control circuitry to provide control signals to the antennas to control a direction of the directional transmission pattern; and
a memory storing parameter data corresponding to a signal strength of a base stations of a communications network through which the UAV modem is configured to communicate, wherein the base station is within transmission range of a location associated with a cell of a three-dimensional grid of cells.