Patent ID: 11937099
Assignee: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of facilitating wireless signaling using beamforming, the method comprising:
determining a position of an electronic device by causing transmission of one or more polling messages from a base station associated with a particular coverage area and analyzing properties of a response received from the electronic device;
in response to analyzing the properties of the response, determining first beam forming parameters for transmitting a beam to the electronic device, the first beam forming parameters based at least in part on the position of the electronic device with respect to the base station and a set of neighboring base stations;
in accordance with the first beam forming parameters, causing transmission of the beam to the electronic device, the beam configured to at least partially avoid interference with at least one neighboring base station of the set of neighboring base stations; and
in response to determining that the position of the electronic device has changed, causing transmission of an updated beam to the electronic device, the updated beam comprising second beam forming parameters different from the first beam forming parameters;
wherein:
the first beam is a narrow beam;
the method further comprises determining that the narrow beam will interfere with the at least one neighboring base station; and
the updated beam is a wide beam to avoid interference with the at least one neighboring base station.