Communication system
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsSuresh Ganapathy, Jagdeep Singh Ahluwalia, Neeraj Gupta, Kenji Kawaguchi
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Abstract
A communication system in which a transferring unit are configured for transferring at least one information element from a first base station to a second base station. In one embodiment, the information element is sent internally to a communication apparatus including the first and second base stations or externally via a communication node external to the apparatus. In one embodiment, the information element is sent between the two base stations via a communication node of a communication network.
Claims29
A communications apparatus comprising:
- a first base station module for providing wireless connectivity to a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices within range of the first base station module;
- a second base station module for providing wireless connectivity to a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices within range of the second base station module;
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- transferring means for transferring, internally to said communication apparatus, at least one information element from one of the first and second base station modules to the other one of the first and second base station modules.
A communications apparatus comprising:
- a first base station module for providing wireless connectivity to a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices within range of the first base station module;
- a second base station module for providing wireless connectivity to a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices within range of the second base station module;
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- transferring means for transferring at least one information element from one of the first and second base station modules to the other one of the first and second base station modules, wherein said transferring means comprises:
- means, provided in said first base station module, for generating and sending a request identifying at least one required information element to a communication node of said communication network;
- means, provided in said second base station module, for receiving said request from said communication node and for sending a response to said request comprising said requested at least one required information element;
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- means, provided in said first base station module, for receiving said response.
A mobile communications device for use with a communications apparatus comprising:
- a first base station module for providing wireless connectivity to a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices within range of the first base station module;
- a second base station module for providing wireless connectivity to a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices within range of the second base station module;
- an interface for coupling the first base station module and the second base station module;
- wherein at least one of the first and second base station modules is configured to exchange, internally to said communication apparatus, at least one information element with the other one of the first and second base station modules via said interface, and
- wherein the mobile communications device is arranged to communicate a communications network via one of the first and second base station modules of the communications apparatus.
A method, performed in a telecommunications network, for facilitating exchange of at least one information element between two base station modules of a communications apparatus, the method comprising exchanging at least one information element, over an internal interface coupling the two base station modules.
A method, performed in a telecommunications network, for facilitating exchange of at least one information element between two base station modules of a communications apparatus, the method comprising exchanging at least one information element via transferring means comprising an operation administration maintenance module comprising a memory.
A method, performed in a telecommunications network, for facilitating exchange of at least one information element between two base station modules of a communications apparatus, the method comprising exchanging at least one information element via transferring means for transferring said at least one information element via a communication node of said communication network external to said communication apparatus.
A communications apparatus comprising:
- a first base station module for providing wireless connectivity to a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices within range of the first base station module;
- means for transferring at least one information element from a second base station module, for providing wireless connectivity to a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices within range of the second base station module, to the first base station module, wherein said transferring means comprises:
- means, provided in said first base station module, for generating and sending a request identifying at least one required information element to a communication node of said communication network;
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- means, provided in said first base station module, for receiving a response to said request from the second base station module, the response comprising said requested at least one required information element.
A method, performed in a telecommunications network, for facilitating exchange of at least one information element between two base station modules of the network, the method comprising exchanging at least one information element via transferring means for transferring said at least one information element via a communication node of said communication network, wherein the transferring means:
- generate and send a request identifying at least one required information element from a first base station module to a communication node of said communication network,
- receive said request from said communication node and send from a second base station module a response to said request comprising said requested at least one required information element;
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- receive said response in the first base station module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.