Systems and methods of dynamic MIMO antenna configuration and/or reconfiguration for portable information handling systems

摘要

Systems and methods may be implemented with MIMO antenna architectures (e.g., such as 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, etc.) of a given mobile information handling system to selectively use dynamic MIMO configuration and/or reconfiguration to select only a subset of the available multiple antenna elements or all of the available multiple antenna elements for receive and/or transmit operation based on the interference characteristics of the given mobile information handling system and/or based on the current radio frequency (RF) band currently being used for wireless communications by the mobile information handling system.

主权项

1. A mobile information handling system, comprising:
a host processing device; at least two available multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) antenna elements; and at least one radio module coupled between the host processing device and each of the available MIMO antenna elements, the radio module including at least one processing device and being configured to at least one of: process and combine separate RF signals received in at least a common first frequency band from each of the available MIMO antenna elements to produce incoming data provided to the host processing device, or process outgoing data provided from the host processing device to produce and transmit separate RF signals in the common first frequency band from each of the available MIMO antenna elements, or a combination thereof; where the processing device of the radio module is configured to determine an identity of a system chassis configuration of the mobile information handling system, and to then respond in real time to this determined identity by at least one of:
dynamically configuring, dynamically reconfiguring, or dynamically configuring and reconfiguring a subset of the available MIMO antenna elements that are actively utilized to receive separate RF signals in the common first frequency band based on the determined identity of the system chassis configuration and based on the identity of the common first RF frequency band to achieve a reduction in the amount of RF interference imparted to RF signals of the common first frequency band that are received by the subset of available MIMO antenna elements as compared to the amount of RF interference imparted to RF signals of the common first frequency band when the RF signals of the common first frequency band are received by all of the available MIMO antenna elements; ordynamically configuring, dynamically reconfiguring, or dynamically configuring and reconfiguring a subset of the available MIMO antenna elements that are actively utilized to transmit separate RF signals in the common first frequency band based on the determined identity of the system chassis configuration and based on the identity of the common first RF frequency band to achieve a reduction in the amount of RF interference imparted to RF signals of the common first frequency band that are transmitted by the subset of available MIMO antenna elements as compared to the amount of RF interference imparted to RF signals of the common first frequency band when the RF signals of the common first frequency band are transmitted by all of the available MIMO antenna elements; ora combination thereof.