Patent ID: 11937328
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A method, comprising:
by a wireless device:
performing measurements including:
one or more measurements of temperature of the wireless device, wherein the one or more measurements of temperature comprises a temperature of a currently active antenna panel of the wireless device; and
at least one measurement of motion or rotation of the wireless device; and

performing receive and transmit chain selection based at least in part on the one or more measurements of temperature and the at least one measurement of motion or rotation of the wireless device, wherein, as part of the receive and transmit chain selection, the method further comprises at least one of:
determining to reduce a number of active antenna elements of the currently active antenna panel if the temperature of the currently active antenna panel is above a first temperature threshold, if the temperature of the currently active antenna panel is below a second temperature threshold, and if a signal strength at the currently active antenna panel minus a signal strength at an antenna panel with a next highest signal strength is greater than a signal strength threshold, wherein the second temperature threshold is higher than the first temperature threshold; or
determining to switch to an antenna panel with a next highest signal strength if the temperature of the currently active antenna panel is above the first temperature threshold and if a signal strength at the currently active antenna panel minus a signal strength at the antenna panel with the next highest signal strength is less than a signal strength threshold.