Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sharing antenna across wireless endpoints
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Application No.: US16394689Application Date: 2019-04-25
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Publication No.: US10666312B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Charbel Khawand , Sean Russell Mercer , Paul Klies
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Holzer Patel Drennan
- Main IPC: H04B1/401
- IPC: H04B1/401 ; H04B1/18 ; H04W88/06 ; H04W72/10 ; H04L1/16 ; H04L5/00 ; H04B7/06

Abstract:
The technology disclosed herein includes an apparatus including an antenna, a number of endpoints using the antenna, and a co-existence manager configured to share the antenna among the plurality of endpoints by sending a resource request to one or more of the plurality of endpoints with at least one of a time for antenna resource use and a priority level for the antenna resource use request. Once the co-existence manager has received acknowledgement from the endpoints controlling use of the antenna resource, programming a scheduler with one or more scheduled events controlling access to the antenna by the plurality of wireless endpoints, wherein the scheduled events control one or more switches to connect the plurality of wireless endpoints to the antenna.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190334571A1 SHARING ANTENNA ACROSS WIRELESS ENDPOINTS Public/Granted day:2019-10-31
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