Loading patent…
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsTimothy Alan Dietz, Walid Kobrosly, Nadeem Malik
Estimating the term…
If RF transmission repeater units could be mounted in as many automobiles as possible, particularly automobiles owned by drivers residing in low population regions, the likelihood would increase that there could be established wireless transmission paths between a wireless telephone unit and cellular array base stations, including a set of at least one automobile mounted repeater unit intermediate and independent of said wireless telephone unit and said base station. With enough automobiles with mounted repeaters travelling in the remoter regions, there would be a reasonable likelihood that such sequential sets of repeaters connecting to base towers of adjacent cellular arrays could be randomly established. The situation could occur that two or more alternate paths could be establishable between a cellular telephone and cell base stations via two different sets of repeaters. In such a case, as set forth hereinafter in greater detail, there are likely to be different cell base stations, each for a different path. In such a case, any conflict could be resolved by selecting the path having the best transmission attributes. This conflict could readily be resolved through conventional cellular telephone system technology that switches moving cell phones within cellular array areas that “hand-off” or switch a moving cell phone as it moves from conventional cell to cell. This hand-off is based upon attributes like signal-to-noise ratio or strength of signal.
In cellular telephone systems having arrays of cellular areas with a base station in each area, a method of expanding the scope and usage of the system into regions beyond the cellular areas of the system comprising:
In cellular telephone network having arrays of cellular areas with a base station in each area, a system for expanding the scope and usage of the system into regions beyond the cellular areas of the system comprising:
A computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium for expanding the scope and usage of a cellular telephone system having arrays of cellular areas with a base station in each area into regions beyond the cellular areas of the system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.