Integrated repeater for integratedly relaying various types of communication signals, and integrated relay system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9402196-B2
Application number	US-201514817179-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 3, 2015
Priority date	May 3, 2010
Publication date	Jul 26, 2016
Grant date	Jul 26, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to an integrated repeater and an integrated relay system. The integrated repeater of the present invention receives a signal from a main repeater for relaying signals transmitted from upper devices, and comprises a demultiplexer configured to demultiplex the multiplexed signal of an Ethernet signal and a mobile communication signal received from the main repeater, and separate the signals into the mobile communication signal and the Ethernet signal; a first converter configured to convert the mobile communication signal separated from the demultiplexer into a radio frequency (RF) signal, and transmit the converted RF signal; a second converter configured to convert the Ethernet signal separated from the demultiplexer into a wireless LAN signal, and transmit the converted wireless LAN signal; and a switching unit configured to deliver a signal received from the main repeater to either the demultiplexer or the second converter, depending on whether a fault of the mobile communication signal is generated.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An integrated repeater for relaying a signal received from an upper device to a lower device, comprising:
a first receiver configured to receive a first mobile communication signal transmitted from a mobile communication base station which is the upper device;
a second receiver configured to receive an Ethernet signal transmitted from an Ethernet equipment which is the upper device;
a first multiplexer configured to multiplex the first mobile communication signal received from the first receiver and the Ethernet signal received from the second receiver;
a switching unit configured to deliver the signal output from the second receiver or the first multiplexer to the lower device, depending on whether a fault of the mobile communication signal is generated;
a third receiver configured to receive a second mobile communication signal from the upper device;
a second multiplexer configured to multiplex the first mobile communication signal received from the first receiver and the second mobile communication signal received from the third receiver; and
a transmitter configured to transmit the signal multiplexed in the second multiplexer to other lower device.

2. The integrated repeater according to claim 1 , wherein the switching unit is connected to the second receiver to deliver only the Ethernet signal to the lower device, not through the first multiplexer, when a fault of the mobile communication signal is generated.

3. The integrated repeater according to claim 1 , which is connected to the lower device through a UTP cable installed inside a building.

4. The integrated repeater according to claim 3 , which further comprises a power supply unit configured to supply a power through the UTP cable which is connected to a LAN connecter to the lower device.

Assignees

• Kt Corp

Inventors

• Kong Seok-Young
• Park Dong-Uk
• Suh Seong-Hee
• Jang Jae-Seon

Classifications

• H04L12/64

  Hybrid switching systems · CPC title

• H04L49/20

  Support for services · CPC title

• H04B3/36 Primary

  Repeater circuits (H04B3/58 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04B10/29

  Repeaters · CPC title

• H04B7/155

  Ground-based stations (H04B7/204 takes precedence) · CPC title