US 9,426,794 B2Granted

Wireless communication system and device for coupling a base station and mobile stations

AssigneeAccess Solutions, Ltd.

InventorPaul F. Struhsaker

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Abstract

A wireless communication system comprising first and second transceivers. The first transceiver communicate with a base station, wherein the base station communicates with the first transceiver and a plurality of other wireless communication devices according to a wide area wireless communication protocol. The second transceiver is coupled to the first transceiver and communicates with a first mobile station, wherein the second transceiver communicates with the first mobile station according to a local area wireless communication protocol. The first transceiver receives from the base station a first downlink signal intended for the first mobile station and transmits the first downlink signal to the second transceiver. The second transceiver re-transmits the first downlink signal to the first mobile station as a second downlink signal according to the local area wireless communication protocol.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A wireless communication device, comprising:

a first wireless transceiver operable to communicate with a base station, wherein the base station communicates with the first wireless transceiver and a plurality of other wireless communication devices according to a wide area wireless communication protocol;
and
a second wireless transceiver coupled to the first wireless transceiver and operable to directly communicate with a first mobile station and a second mobile station, wherein the second wireless transceiver communicates with the first mobile station and the second mobile station according to a local area wireless communication protocol,
wherein the first wireless transceiver receives from the base station a first downlink signal intended for the first mobile station and provides the first downlink signal to the second wireless transceiver and wherein the second wireless transceiver receives the first downlink signal and re-transmits the first downlink signal to the first mobile station as a second downlink signal according to the local area wireless communication protocol, and
wherein the second transceiver monitors first signal characteristics of the second downlink signal of the first mobile station and monitors second signal characteristics of the second mobile station, and based on the first signal characteristics and the second characteristics, routes information to the first mobile station and the second mobile station, respectively.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/488,374Filed 4 Jun 2012 · continuation
Priority: 19 Jan 2001
Published: US 2012/0307815 A16 Dec 2012
Granted: 23 Aug 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04W 72/23
Control channels or signalling for resource management: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
H04W 84/14
Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks: wLL [Wireless Local Loop]; RLL [Radio Local Loop]
H04W 84/12
Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks: wLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
H04W 88/02
Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices: terminal devices

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