Patent ID: 11967770
Assignee: nan
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A method of operating an electronic device to communicate with a wireless base station, the method comprising:
with a phased antenna array, concurrently receiving downlink signals over a first signal beam of a first linear polarization and a second signal beam of a second linear polarization orthogonal to the first linear polarization;
measuring a first wireless performance metric value from the downlink signals using the first signal beam and a second wireless performance metric value from the downlink signals using the second signal beam;
with the phased antenna array, concurrently receiving the downlink signals over a third signal beam of the first linear polarization and a fourth signal beam of the second linear polarization, the third signal beam being oriented at a different angle than the first signal beam;
measuring a third wireless performance metric value from the downlink signals using the third signal beam and a fourth wireless performance metric value from the downlink signals using the fourth signal beam; and
with the phased antenna array, concurrently conveying a first wireless data stream over the third signal beam and a second wireless data stream over the fourth signal beam, wherein the first wireless performance metric value differs from the second wireless performance metric value by a first amount, the third wireless performance metric value differs from the fourth wireless performance metric value by a second amount that is less than the first amount, and the first wireless performance metric value has a higher magnitude than the third wireless performance metric value and the fourth wireless performance metric value.