Method and apparatus for radio antenna frequency tuning
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
H04B-001/44
H04B-001/401
H01Q-001/24
H01Q-009/14
H03H-007/40
H04B-001/04
H04B-001/18
H04B-017/26
H04B-017/318
출원번호
US-0951946
(2015-11-25)
등록번호
US-9698858
(2017-07-04)
발명자
/ 주소
Hoirup, Carsten
Manssen, Keith
Greene, Matthew Russell
출원인 / 주소
BlackBerry Limited
대리인 / 주소
Guntin & Gust, PLC
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264
초록▼
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, which can include computer instructions to determine a subset of use cases from a group of use cases stored in a memory of a communication device, and to determ
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, which can include computer instructions to determine a subset of use cases from a group of use cases stored in a memory of a communication device, and to determine a target use case from among the subset of use cases based on an operational parameter associated with a transceiver of the communication device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
대표청구항▼
1. A method comprising: accessing, by a system of a communication device, a memory that includes information representative of a group of use cases that are indexed in the memory according to usage conditions of the communication device, each of the group of use cases corresponding to a tuning state
1. A method comprising: accessing, by a system of a communication device, a memory that includes information representative of a group of use cases that are indexed in the memory according to usage conditions of the communication device, each of the group of use cases corresponding to a tuning state for tunable elements of an impedance matching circuit of the communication device;selecting, by the system, a subset of use cases from the group of use cases based on a usage condition determined for the communication device;applying, by the system, each tuning state of the subset of use cases to the tunable elements without applying non-selected use case of the group of use cases and measuring, by the system, a signal parameter for a signal at each tuning state to generate a group of signal parameters, wherein the signal parameter is associated with signal quality; andselecting, by the system, a target use case from among the subset of use cases based on a desired signal parameter selected from among the group of signal parameters. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the signal parameter for the signal comprises a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurement. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating of the group of signal parameters comprises averaging parametric measurements for each tuning state. 4. The method of claim 1, comprising adjusting, by the system, a variable reactance of the tunable elements based on a corresponding tuning state of the target use case to tune the impedance matching circuit. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the tuning elements include a variable capacitance element. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the tuning elements include a group of inductors, and further comprising adjusting a switch coupled with the group of inductors based on a corresponding tuning state of the target use case to tune the impedance matching circuit. 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the subset of use cases is applicable to all of the tunable elements of the impedance matching circuit of the communication device. 8. The method of claim 1, comprising: receiving, by the system, tuning information from a base station, wherein the selecting of the target use case is based on the tuning information. 9. A communication device comprising: a transceiver;an impedance matching circuit coupled with the transceiver;a memory that stores computer instructions; anda processor coupled with the memory and the impedance matching circuit, wherein the processor, responsive to executing the computer instructions, performs operations comprising: accessing information in the memory, wherein the information is representative of a group of use cases that are indexed in the memory according to usage conditions of the communication device, each of the group of use cases corresponding to a tuning state for tunable elements of an impedance matching circuit of the communication device;selecting a subset of use cases from the group of use cases based on a usage condition determined for the communication device;applying each tuning state of the subset of use cases to the tunable elements without applying non-selected use case of the group of use cases and measuring a signal parameter associated with a signal quality for a signal at each tuning state to generate a group of signal parameters; andselecting a target use case from among the subset of use cases based on a desired signal parameter selected from among the group of signal parameters. 10. The communication device of claim 9, wherein generating of the group of signal parameters comprises averaging parametric measurements for each tuning state. 11. The communication device of claim 9, wherein the tuning elements include a group of inductors, and further comprising adjusting a switch coupled with the group of inductors based on a corresponding tuning state of the target use case to tune the impedance matching circuit. 12. The communication device of claim 11, wherein the impedance matching circuit includes a fixed reactance capacitor. 13. The communication device of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise: receiving tuning information from a base station, wherein the selecting of the target use case is based on the tuning information. 14. The communication device of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise: adjusting a variable reactance of the tunable elements based on a corresponding tuning state of the target use case to tune the impedance matching circuit; monitoring a different signal parameter that is of a different type than the measured signal parameter associated with signal quality; andresponsive to the different signal parameter not satisfying a threshold, selecting another subset of use cases from the group of use cases based on another usage condition determined for the communication device. 15. The communication device of claim 11, wherein the tuning elements include a variable capacitance element. 16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device comprising computer instructions which, responsive to being executed by a processor of a communication device, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: selecting a subset of use cases from a group of use cases based on a usage condition of the communication device, wherein the group of use cases applies to all variable reactance components of an impedance matching circuit of the communication device;collecting parametric measurements associated with a transceiver of the communication device for each tuning state corresponding to each of the subset of use cases during the operation of the communication device, wherein the collecting of the parametric measurements comprises collecting multiple parametric measurements for each tuning state corresponding to each of the subset of use cases during the operation of the communication device without collecting any parametric measurements for non-selected use cases of the group of use cases, wherein the parametric measurements are associated with a signal quality;selecting a target use case from among the subset of use cases based on the parametric measurements; andtuning the impedance matching circuit of the communication device by adjusting one or more of the variable reactance component based on the target use case. 17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 16, wherein the selecting of the target use case from among the subset of use cases is based on an averaging of select ones of the multiple parametric measurements. 18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 16, wherein the parametric measurements are associated with a receive portion of the transceiver and are obtained during a receive mode of the communication device. 19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 16, wherein the variable reactance component includes a group of inductors, and further comprising adjusting a switch coupled with the group of inductors based on a corresponding tuning state of the target use case to tune the impedance matching circuit. 20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 19, wherein the impedance matching circuit includes a fixed reactance capacitor.
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