Managing Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint Communication in a Distributed Base Station
US-2024422804-A1 · Dec 19, 2024 · US
Cellular communications system with sectorization
USRE45321E · US · E1
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Publication number | US-RE45321-E |
| Application number | US-201213725866-A |
| Country | US |
| Kind code | E1 |
| Filing date | Dec 21, 2012 |
| Priority date | Sep 17, 1992 |
| Publication date | Jan 6, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jan 6, 2015 |
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A method and apparatus for sectorizing coverage of a cellular communications area includes providing a remote unit having microcell antenna units. Each microcell antenna unit is configured to cover a particular sector. The remote unit is connected to a sectorized base station unit which is connected to a mobile telecommunications switching office. Separate digitized streams representative of telephone signals received from the mobile telecommunications switching office are generated corresponding to the microcell antenna units and the separate digitized streams are multiplexed and transmitted to the remote unit. The remote unit demultiplexes the multiplexed digitized streams into the separate digitized streams corresponding to the microcell antenna units and the separate digitized streams are converted to RF signals for coverage of a particular sector by the corresponding microcell antenna unit. Separate digitized streams are separately generated for each microcell antenna unit representative of RF signals received at the microcell antenna unit for a particular sector. The separately generated digitized streams are multiplexed at the remote unit and transmitted to the sectorized base station unit. At the sectorized base station unit, the multiplexed digitized streams are demultiplexed into the separate digitized streams corresponding to microcell antenna units and the separate digitized streams are converted to RF signals for provision to the mobile telecommunications switching office. Diversity at the remote units is also provided.
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We claim: 1. A method of sectorizing coverage over a cellular communications area divided into a plurality of microcells each covering a subarea of the communications area and being divided into a plurality of angular sectors having separate transmitters and receivers, the method comprising performing the following steps: receiving a number of information-bearing telephone signals from a mobile telecommunications switching office at a common base station serving the microcells wit…
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Electricity · mapped topic
Electricity · mapped topic
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- What does patent USRE45321E cover?
- A method and apparatus for sectorizing coverage of a cellular communications area includes providing a remote unit having microcell antenna units. Each microcell antenna unit is configured to cover a particular sector. The remote unit is connected to a sectorized base station unit which is connected to a mobile telecommunications switching office. Separate digitized streams representative of te…
- Who is the assignee on this patent?
- Adc Telecommunications Inc
- What technology area does this patent fall under?
- Primary CPC classification H04W88/085. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
- When was this patent published?
- Publication date Tue Jan 06 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (E1). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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- We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).