Systems/methods of carrier aggregation
AssigneeEICES Research, Inc.
InventorPeter D. Karabinis
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Abstract
Various embodiments of carrier aggregation are provided that increase communications capacity and throughput. According to some embodiments, a receiver may be configured with a plurality of receiver chains and, responsive to an aggregate bandwidth of an overall signal that is to be received by the receiver, a plurality of components of the overall signal, each comprising a bandwidth that is less than a frequency span of the overall signal, are received by a respective plurality of receiver chains. Accordingly, each component of the plurality of components of the overall signal may be received by a respective receiver chain of the plurality of receiver chains of the receiver thus avoiding bandwidth limitations associated with receiver elements.
Claims57
A communications method comprising:
- receiving by a receiver a plurality of components of an overall signal;
- each component of the plurality of components comprising a characteristic value that is less than a corresponding characteristic value of the overall signal;
- configuring the receiver with a plurality of elements corresponding to the plurality of components of the overall signal;
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- receiving the overall signal by receiving by the receiver the plurality of components of the overall signal using the corresponding plurality of elements;
- wherein the characteristic value comprises a bandwidth.
A communications system comprising:
- a receiver comprising a plurality of elements corresponding to a plurality of components of an overall signal that is to be received by the receiver;
- each component of said plurality of components comprising a characteristic value that is less than a corresponding characteristic value of the overall signal;
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- a processor that is configured to receive the overall signal by processing the plurality of components of the overall signal via a respective plurality of elements;
- wherein the characteristic value comprises a bandwidth.
A communications method comprising:
- configuring a plurality of receiver chains;
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- receiving an overall signal by a receiver by using a first receiver chain of the plurality of receiver chains and a second receiver chain of the plurality of receiver chains to receive respective first and second different components of the overall signal over respective first and second mutually exclusive frequencies.
A communications system comprising:
- a receiver that comprises a plurality of receiver chains and a processor that is configured to perform operations comprising:
- receiving an overall signal by using a first receiver chain of the plurality of receiver chains and a second receiver chain of the plurality of receiver chains to receive respective first and second different components of the overall signal over respective first and second mutually exclusive frequencies.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.