Patent ID: 11901983
Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A processing node for selectively assigning uplink transmission layers, the processing node being configured to perform operations comprising:
determining that a wireless device within a threshold distance of a serving access node has an uplink usage based on a type of uplink transmission that meets a threshold, wherein the type of uplink transmission is multimedia or voice data, and wherein the wireless device is configured to utilize a first antenna for uplink transmissions using a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second antenna for uplink transmissions using a second RAT, and the first RAT utilizes a lower frequency than the second RAT;
instructing the wireless device to stop transmitting uplink data via the second antenna;
based on meeting the threshold, instructing the wireless device to utilize an additional orthogonal layer for uplink transmissions; and
instructing the wireless device to utilize the first antenna for the additional orthogonal layer.