Systems and methods for joint wireless transmission and joint wireless reception
AssigneeCable Television Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsJoseph Padden, Mark J. Poletti
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Abstract
A method for joint wireless transmission includes (a) at a master wireless communication device, generating a first coordination signal for coordinating joint transmission of a wireless communication signal by at least the master wireless communication device and a first slave wireless communication device, (b) transmitting the first coordination signal from the master wireless communication device to the first slave wireless communication device, and (c) transmitting a first portion of the wireless communication signal from the master wireless communication device to a wireless base station that is remote from each of the master wireless communication device and the first slave wireless communication device.
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A method for joint wireless transmission, comprising:
- at a primary wireless communication device, generating a first coordination signal at least partially based on a location of a first secondary wireless communication device, the first coordination signal for coordinating joint transmission of a wireless communication signal by at least the primary wireless communication device and the first secondary wireless communication device;
- transmitting the first coordination signal from the primary wireless communication device to the first secondary wireless communication device;
- transmitting a first portion of the wireless communication signal from the primary wireless communication device to a wireless base station that is remote from each of the primary wireless communication device and the first secondary wireless communication device;
- and
- at the primary wireless communication device:
- determining one or more parameters associated with a second portion of the wireless communication signal based at least partially on the location of the first secondary wireless communication device, the second portion of the wireless communication signal being for transmission from the first secondary wireless communication device to the wireless base station, and
- generating the first coordination signal such that the first coordination signal specifies the one or more parameters associated with the second portion of the wireless communication signal.
A method for joint wireless transmission, comprising:
- at a primary wireless communication device, generating a first coordination signal at least partially based on a location of a first secondary wireless communication device, the first coordination signal for coordinating joint transmission of a wireless communication signal by at least the primary wireless communication device and the first secondary wireless communication device;
- transmitting the first coordination signal from the primary wireless communication device to the first secondary wireless communication device;
- transmitting a first portion of the wireless communication signal from the primary wireless communication device to a wireless base station that is remote from each of the primary wireless communication device and the first secondary wireless communication device;
- receiving, at the primary wireless communication device, a secondary power signal representing power of wireless communication signals received by the first secondary wireless communication device from the wireless base station;
- determining, at the primary wireless communication device, that the secondary power signal is greater than a primary power signal, the primary power signal representing power of wireless communication signals received by the primary wireless communication device from the wireless base station;
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- in response to determining that the secondary power signal is greater than the primary power signal, transmitting a signal from the primary wireless communication device to the first secondary wireless communication device commanding the first secondary wireless communication device to become a new primary wireless communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.