Physical layer shielding of wireless communications
US11575413B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 24, 2022 |
| Grant date | Feb 7, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 24, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W52/267
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Presented herein are techniques to shield transmissions from being received and the information contained in them recovered by unwanted devices. Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) techniques are employed, and in particular the spatial dimension aspects of those techniques. Shield nodes are controlled to transmit in a way to obscure the downlink streams transmitted by a wireless access point that are intended for a particular client device to anything outside of the shielded area, and also to obscure uplink streams from one or more client devices to the wireless access point to anything outside of the shielded area but allowing the uplink streams to be well received by the wireless access point.
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