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> Present cell systems don't adjust phase to maximize reception quality in a coordinated way for each of several transmitting antennas, for each packet, for eac
by foobarqux 13y ago
> Present cell systems don't adjust phase to maximize reception quality in a coordinated way for each of several transmitting antennas, for each packet, for each participating device. That's new.
You are just describing MIMO pre-coding which has existed for more than 20 years.
I don't see what is patentable: Distributed beamforming necessarily requires physically dispersed antennas. Adding a data center doesn't seem patentable. But I don't know anything about patents nor do I care that much.
- lutusp 13y ago> I don't see what is patentable ... Being a critic of software patents myself, and given how much this idea relies on software and mathematics (mathematics is definitely unpatentable), I agree that it's an issue. I suspect that the entire method is patentable even though each element taken separately isn't.
- darkmighty 13y agoYea the novelty is essentially that he's (allegedly) managed to make MIMO work with "non-local" antennas, which is really tricky in practice due to the sub-nanosecond phase synchronization required.
- foobarqux 13y ago"non-local" MIMO is distributed beamforming which he didn't invent.