Statistical weighting and adjustment of state variables in a radio
View Patent ↗A method involving receiving a real time communication signal at a radio receiver involves measuring at least one performance value associated with the radio receiver with an installed set of state variables; at a processor forming a part of the radio receiver: iteratively changing at least one of the state variables within a prescribed range in order to identify an improved value of the state variable that provides an improvement to the at least one performance value; storing the improved value of the state variable; applying a statistical weighting to the improved value and storing the statistical weighting; and adjusting the prescribed range of the state variable based upon the statistical weighting to provide a revised prescribed range that is statistically likely to contain state variable that provides improvement in the at least one performance value. This abstract is not to be considered limiting.
1. A method, comprising:
powering up a radio having a processor;
on powering up the radio, the processor retrieving and installing an initial set of state variables having a highest statistical probability of providing best performance according to stored statistical weighting of the state variables;
receiving a real time communication signal at a radio receiver;
measuring at least one performance value associated with the radio receiver with an installed set of state variables;
at the processor:
iteratively changing at least one of the state variables within a prescribed range in order to identify an improved value of the at least one state variable that provides an improvement to the at least one performance value;
storing the improved value of the at least one state variable;
applying a statistical weighting to the improved value and storing the statistical weighting;
adjusting the prescribed range of the at least one state variable based upon the statistical weighting to provide a revised prescribed range that is statistically likely to contain at least one state variable that provides improvement in the at least one performance value; and
storing environment data that characterizes the radio environment along with the improved value of the at least one state variable;
the radio sending the improved value and the environment data to a base station; and
at the base station pushing the improved value of the at least one state variable to a different radio receiver that is within the environment of the radio.
2. The method according to claim 1 , where the environment data comprises location data and the environment comprises a geographic area.
3. The method according to claim 1 , where applying the statistical weighting comprises incrementing a value associated with the improved value of the at least one state variable.
4. A radio apparatus, comprising:
a radio receiver configured to receive a real time communication signal; and
a processor forming a part of the radio receiver, the processor being programmed to:
measure at least one performance value associated with the radio receiver with an installed set of state variables;
iteratively change at least one of the state variables within a prescribed range in order to identify an improved value of the at least one state variable that provides an improvement to the at least one performance value;
store the improved value of the at least one state variable;
apply a statistical weighting to the improved value;
store the statistical weighting;
adjust the prescribed range of the at least one state variable based upon the statistical weighting to provide a revised prescribed range that is statistically likely to contain at least one state variable that provides improvement in the at least one performance value;
where the processor is further programmed to send the improved value to a base station, the base station configured to push the improved value of the at least one state variable to a different radio receiver.