Method and system for assigning antennas in dense array
AssigneeCharter Communication Operating, LLC
InventorsJoseph Thaddeus Lipowski, James Alan Bingham
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Abstract
A method and system optimally selecting antenna elements based on the current availability of antenna elements and the current usage of other antenna elements within a two or three dimensional array. The present system and method pertain to an approach to allow the maximal usage of each antenna element while simultaneously reducing the coupling between antenna elements to improve the signal strength in each antenna element by ensuring that antenna elements in the same incident path are not tuned to the same frequency or physically or electrically near elements tuned to identical or adjacent frequencies.
Claims18
A method of assigning antenna elements of an antenna array, the method comprising:
- receiving user requests for content broadcast by broadcasting entities on channels;
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- assigning the user requests to the antenna elements of the antenna array to minimize coupling with other antenna elements based on the channels of the content for the user requests and the channels to which the other antenna elements are tuned.
A system for capturing content broadcast by broadcasting entities, the system comprising:
- an array of antenna elements for receiving user requests for the content broadcast by the broadcasting entities on channels;
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- an antenna controller that assigns the user requests to the antenna elements of the antenna array to minimize coupling with other antenna elements based on the channels of the content for the user requests and the channels to which the other antenna elements are tuned.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.