Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-14
2006-11-14
Feild, Joseph (Department: 2617)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
C455S452100, C455S453000, C455S509000, C455S063100, C370S329000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07136655
ABSTRACT:
A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to as “sectors”. In one embodiment, channel allocation techniques for increasing one or more of throughput and coverage in a wireless communications environment. In one embodiment, a mode of operation is selected from a plurality of modes of operation, enabling a wireless communications transmitter to be dynamically configured to reach a wireless communications devices at a greater distance from the transmitter without increased interference between communications channels (“range mode”) or to provide wireless communications to a greater number of wireless communications devices within a relatively closer distance to the wireless transmitter (“capacity mode”) or to provide wireless communications using a single channel to provide wireless communications at a relatively greatest distance from the transmitter (“super range mode”).
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Benson Mark William
Broe Kevin Sean
Cheng Lei
Do Duy Khuong
Ekambaram Natarajan
Afshar Kamran
Bandspeed, Inc.
Feild Joseph
Hickman Palermo & Truong & Becker LLP
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