Method and apparatus for intelligent microcell and antenna selection in digital cellular telephone systems
AssigneeCellco Partnership
InventorWilliam C. Y. Lee
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for controlling communications between a mobile cellular telephone and a cell of a cellular telephone network. The apparatus comprises a serving transceiver for transmitting and receiving communications between the cell and the mobile cellular telephone, a scanner, coupled to an antenna, for selectably scanning the communication channels to measure a characteristic of the signal transmitted from the mobile telephone, and a controller, coupled to the scanner and the serving transceiver, for commanding the antenna based on the measured signal characteristic.
Claims43
An apparatus for controlling communications between a cellular telephone network operating on a plurality of communication channels and having a cell served by at least one antenna, and a mobile cellar telephone the apparatus comprising:
- a serving transceiver, for transmitting and receiving communications between the cell and the mobile cellular telephone;
- a scanner, coupled to the antenna, for selectably scanning the communication channels and measuring a baseband characteristic of a signal transmitted from the mobile telephone, the scanner comprising at least one scanning receiver for measuring the baseband signal characteristic;
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- a controller, coupled to the scanner and the serving transceiver, for commanding the antenna based on the measured baseband signal characteristic.
A method of adaptively controlling commutations with a mobile telephone in a cellular telephone network operating on a plurality of communicating channels, the cellular telephone network comprising a cell served by at least one antenna, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a signal transmitted by the mobile telephone on a selected communication channel;
- measuring a baseband characteristic of the received signal transmitted from the mobile telephone on the communications channel;
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- controlling the antenna in accordance with the measured baseband characteristic of the received signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.