Patent ID: 11902003
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A system, comprising
one or more antennas; and
one or more transmitters coupled to the one or more antennas and that are configured to:
transmit a reference signal to a user equipment electronic device (UE),
based on the transmission of the reference signal, receive a coarse sweep of coarse transmitter beams from the UE, the coarse sweep including a pattern of the coarse transmitter beams that skips at least some transmitter beams,
transmit a coarse selection signal selecting a coarse beam from the pattern,
based on the coarse selection signal selecting the coarse beam, receive a refining sweep with interposing beams of the transmitter beams between the coarse transmitter beams,
based on the refining sweep, transmitting a best beam signal to select a best beam from the interposing beams or the selected coarse beam, and
communicate with the UE using the best beam.