Method for changing ground unit of antenna on basis of data throughput speed estimation, and electronic device therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11901649-B2
Application number	US-201917268851-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 7, 2019
Priority date	Aug 16, 2018
Publication date	Feb 13, 2024
Grant date	Feb 13, 2024

Abstract

Various embodiments disclosed in the present document relate to, an antenna switch for operating in a communication network supporting carrier aggregation (CA), and an electronic device comprising same. According to one embodiment, a method for operating an electronic device having an antenna, the antenna being capable of communicating with an external electronic device via a plurality of frequency bands, may be provided, the method for operating the electronic device comprising the operations of, determining whether a communication mode of the electronic device is a CA mode, searching for a cell supporting a max data throughput speed, checking an antenna mode in a current state, and determining whether the antenna mode in the current state is an antenna mode for satisfying a frequency band assigned to the cell supporting the max data throughput speed. Such electronic device may vary according to the embodiments, and in addition, an antenna and an electronic device comprising same, according to the various embodiments, may be provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device, comprising:
an antenna including a radiating unit capable of communication through a first frequency band and a second frequency band and a power feeding unit;
a switch configured to selectively connect at least one of a first grounding unit of the electronic device, corresponding to the first frequency band and a second grounding unit of the electronic device, corresponding to the second frequency band to the radiating unit; and
a processor configured to:
connect at least one of the first grounding unit and the second grounding unit to the radiating unit based on a parameter indicating a signal strength and estimate, at least once, a data throughput according to at least one antenna switch grounding structure; and
control the switch by connecting at least one of the first grounding unit and the second grounding unit to the radiating unit to implement an antenna switch grounding structure having a quickest data throughput based on the estimated data throughput.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:
perform communication with an external electronic device by a first data throughput through the first frequency band and the second frequency band, with the radiating unit and the first grounding unit connected together using the switch; and
estimate a second data throughput to be executed through the first frequency band and the second frequency band in relation to a state in which the radiating unit and the second grounding unit are to be connected using the switch while performing the communication with the external electronic device.

3. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the processor is configured to:
when the first data throughput is greater than the second data throughput, perform the communication with the external electronic device while maintaining the connection between the radiating unit and the first grounding unit using the switch; and
when the second data throughput is greater than the first data throughput, connect the radiating unit and the second grounding unit using the switch and perform the communication with the external electronic device, with the radiating unit and the second grounding unit connected together using the switch.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the first frequency band and the second frequency band are not contiguous to each other.

5. The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein the first frequency band and the second frequency band are adjacent to each other.

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the first frequency band and the second frequency band have different bandwidths.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to estimate the data throughput based on, at least, a parameter related to a signal strength of the communication.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to perform execution of the data throughput when an electric field range of the communication is a designated electric field range or less, a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the communication is a designated SNR value or less, or a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index received from the external electronic device is a designated MCS index or less.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to determine whether to perform the communication at the first data throughput or the second data throughput per electric field depending on a plurality of separately designated electric field ranges and to perform the communication with the external electronic device.

10. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the electric field ranges are divided into a first designated electric field range, a second electric field range, and a third electric field range in order from highest to lowest, wherein estimation of the second data throughput is performed in the second designated electric field range and the third designated electric field range, and wherein in the second designated electric field range, the second data throughput is estimated, with at least one of the first frequency band and the second frequency band excluded.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lim Wonsub
• Ku Doil
• Na Hyoseok

Classifications

• H04B17/328

  Reference signal received power [RSRP]; Reference signal received quality [RSRQ] · CPC title

• H04B17/309

  Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters · CPC title

• H04L5/001

  the frequencies being arranged in component carriers · CPC title

• H04B1/0053

  with common antenna for more than one band · CPC title

• H04B1/401

  for selecting or indicating operating mode · CPC title