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Granted Patent B2
US 12,395,233 · App. 17/910,416 · Granted Aug 19, 2025

Method and system for in-building radio unit applied to open LAN with frequency resource distribution

Inventors: Gwang-Jae Jang (Bucheon-si, KR); Yu Jin Lim (Bucheon-si, KR); Sung Hoon Yoon (Bucheon-si, KR); Duck Young Park (Bucheon-si, KR); Jin Sil Park (Bucheon-si, KR)
Assignee: TJ INNOVATION CO., LTD.
H04B7/15528H04B7/0413H04B7/0617H04B7/0626
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Patent No.
US 12,395,233
App. No.
17/910,416
Granted
Aug 19, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is an in-building radio unit applied to an open LAN having an open base station structure. The in-building radio unit is configured to match a beam ID and a front-end unit based on beamforming information received from a base station; and communicatively connect a terminal and the base station via the matched front-end unit, the terminal and the base station being connected to the matched front-end unit.

Claims (39)

1. An in-building radio unit applied to an open LAN having an open base station structure, the in-building radio unit being configured to:

match a beam ID and a front-end unit based on beamforming information received from a base station; and

communicatively connect a terminal and the base station via the matched front-end unit, the terminal and the base station being connected to the matched front-end unit,

wherein the in-building radio unit supports a fronthaul interface with the base station, the front-end unit being positioned between the in-building radio unit and the terminal to relay a communication signal;

wherein an extension unit configured to transmit a signal is further provided between the radio unit and the front-end unit; and

wherein the in-building radio unit matches the extension unit and the front-end unit based on an SSB index and a CSI-RS index acquired from SSB information extracted by pre-coding the beamforming information.

2. The in-building radio unit of claim 1 , wherein the terminal is wirelessly communicatively connected to the front-end unit rather than the radio unit.

3. The in-building radio unit of claim 2 , wherein the in-building radio unit is for in-building use and is communicatively connected to the base station by wire,

wherein the in-building radio unit distributes communication paths between the base station and the front-end unit based on the beamforming information.

4. The in-building radio unit of claim 1 , wherein the in-building radio unit skips transmission of an unmatched signal of the front-end unit except for a matched signal of the front-end unit according to the beamforming information.

5. The in-building radio unit of claim 1 , wherein the beamforming information is configured according to a generation period of C-plane data of the fronthaul interface.

6. The in-building radio unit of claim 5 , wherein the in-building radio unit pre-codes only the C-plane data of the fronthaul interface.

7. A system comprising:

the in-building radio unit according to claim 1 ; and

a base station and a terminal communicatively connected via the in-building radio unit.

8. A method for controlling an in-building radio unit applied to an open LAN having an open base station structure, the method comprising:

matching, by the in-building radio unit, a beam ID and a front-end unit based on beamforming information received from a base station; and

communicatively connecting a terminal and the base station via the matched front-end unit, the terminal and the base station being connected to the matched front-end unit,

wherein the in-building radio unit supports a fronthaul interface with the base station, the front-end unit being positioned between the in-building radio unit and the terminal to relay a communication signal,

wherein an extension unit is positioned between the in-building radio unit and the front-end unit to transmit the signal,

wherein the matching comprises:

acquiring, by the in-building radio unit, an SSB index and a CSI-RS index from SSB information extracted by pre-coding the beamforming information;

matching, by the in-building radio unit, the extension unit based on the SSB index; and

matching, by the in-building radio unit, the front-end unit connected to the extension unit based on the CSI-RS index.

9. A system comprising:

the in-building radio unit according to claim 2 ; and

a base station and a terminal communicatively connected via the in-building radio unit.

10. A system comprising:

the in-building radio unit according to claim 3 ; and

a base station and a terminal communicatively connected via the in-building radio unit.

11. A system comprising:

the in-building radio unit according to claim 4 ; and

a base station and a terminal communicatively connected via the in-building radio unit.

12. A system comprising:

the in-building radio unit according to claim 5 ; and

a base station and a terminal communicatively connected via the in-building radio unit.

13. A system comprising:

the in-building radio unit according to claim 6 ; and

a base station and a terminal communicatively connected via the in-building radio unit.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2022-0025897 · Feb 28, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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