Patent ID: 11894904
Assignee: KYOCERA AVX COMPONENTS (SAN DIEGO), INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A device comprising:
a multi-mode antenna configurable in a plurality of antenna modes, each of the antenna modes having a distinct radiation pattern; and
one or more processors configured to:
communicate, over a wireless network to a network controller, data indicative of performance of the multi-mode antenna while configured in one or more of the plurality of antenna modes, the data comprising a channel quality indicator associated with communicating with a first device;
obtain one or more control signals from the network controller to configure the multi-mode antenna in a selected antenna mode of the plurality of antenna modes, the one or more control signals based, at least in part, on one or more network performance indicators for the wireless network that the network controller determined based, at least in part, on the channel quality indicator; and
configure the multi-mode antenna in the selected antenna mode for a second device.