Patent ID: 11923936
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a memory comprising instructions;
a transceiver; and
one or more processors operatively coupled with the memory and the transceiver, the one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to:
establish a communication link with a device;
detect at least one of: one or more obstructed antenna modules of a plurality of total antenna modules of the UE available for communication with the device; or one or more obstructed antenna subarrays of a plurality of total antenna subarrays of the UE available for communication with the device;
generate first information based at least on: a number of the plurality of total antenna modules; or a number of the plurality of total antenna subarrays, wherein the first information is a resulting number of antenna module or antenna subarrays obtained by subtracting a number of the obstructed antenna modules from the number of the plurality of total antenna modules, or subtracting a number of the obstructed antenna subarrays from the number of the plurality of total antenna subarrays;
transmit the first information associated with first beam configurations of the UE to the device;
receive, from the device, second information associated with second beam configurations of the device; and
perform a beam training process by transmitting a number of reference signals to the device, wherein the number of the reference signals is derived from the first information associated with the first beam configurations and the second information associated with the second beam configurations.