Automatic transmit power control disabling
AssigneeHarris Corporation
InventorMarc Gagnon
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Abstract
A communications system in which a plurality of transmitter and receiver stations, wherein the transmitter stations are co-located in the same geographic area and capable of communication with each other and an improved method of Automatic Transmitter Power Control (ATPC) operation, wherein the method allows only one transmitter to engage in ATPC at a time per channel set and another improved method of ATPC in which there exists at least two co-located transmitters capable of ATPC operation and wherein the transmitters share transmitter ATPC status.
Claims18
A method of communicating between plural transmitter stations and plural receiver stations, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing plural transmitter stations co-located in the same geographic area and capable of communication with one another;
- providing plural receiver stations;
- providing Automatic Transmitter Power Control for each of said plural transmitter stations;
- and
- engaging in Automatic Transmitter Power Control with one of said plural receivers and preventing others of said plural receivers from making a Automatic Transmitter Power Control request for Automatic Transmitter Power Control correction while engaged in Automatic Transmitter Power Control with the one of said plural receivers.
A method of transmitting from plural transmitter stations on one or more channel sets, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing plural transmitter stations co-located in the same geographic area and capable of communication with one another;
- providing Automatic Transmitter Power Control for each of said plural transmitter stations;
- and
- engaging in Automatic Transmitter Power Control with one of said plural transmitter stations on a channel set and during the engagement preventing others of said plural transmitter stations from engaging in Automatic Transmitter Power Control on the same channel set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.