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

Claim 8:
9. A system for selectively assigning uplink transmission layers, the system comprising:
a processing node; and
a processor coupled to the processing node, the processor being configured to perform operations comprising:
determining that an uplink usage based on a type of uplink transmission of a wireless device that is farther than a threshold distance from a servicing access node meets a threshold, wherein the type of uplink transmission is multimedia content 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;
instructing the wireless device to utilize the first antenna for the additional orthogonal layer.