Patent ID: 11882626
Assignee: SPRINT SPECTRUM LP
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A method for selecting combinations of antennae of a wireless device, the method comprising:
receiving, at an access node, a service request from the wireless device, the service request including an associated quality of service (QoS) identifier, the wireless device comprising a plurality of antennae;
determining, at the access node or a processing node accessible to the access node, a transmission type of the wireless device based on the associated QoS identifier, wherein multiple different transmission types correspond to transmissions that use different radio access technologies (RATs), transmissions that use different frequencies, transmissions that use different MIMO configurations, or combinations thereof;
determining at the access node or a processing node accessible to the access node that a communication between the wireless device and the access node does not require using all of the plurality of antennae of the wireless device based on a table associating a plurality of quality of service (QoS) identifiers with a plurality of antenna configurations of the wireless device, one of the plurality of QoS identifiers being the associated QoS identifier included with the service request; and
transmitting an instruction from the access node to the wireless device to selectively activate and deactivate one or more of the plurality of antennae, thereby to utilize a reduced quantity of the plurality of antennae for the transmission, the reduced quantity of the plurality of antennae being based on one of the plurality of antenna configurations corresponding to the associated QoS identifier included with the service request.