Patents Examined by Ping Hseih
  • Patent number: 8676133
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate creating antenna ports to correspond to two or more groups of user equipment (UEs). The subject innovation can organize two or more groups of user equipment and signal to each of the two or more groups a respective antenna port. The subject innovation can further communicate mapping information, a reference signal, or delay related to a linear combination in order to identify antenna ports. Based on such communicated information, the reference signal can be decoded in order to identify each antenna port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Montojo, Ravi Palanki, Amir Farajidana, Kapil Bhattad