Telecommunications – Carrier wave repeater or relay system – Monitoring
Reexamination Certificate
2008-07-29
2008-07-29
Perez-Gutierrez, Rafael (Department: 2617)
Telecommunications
Carrier wave repeater or relay system
Monitoring
C455S010000, C455S011100, C455S013100, C455S550100, C455S562100, C455S450000, C455S453000, C455S016000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10659647
ABSTRACT:
A method for dynamically directing a wireless repeater is provided. A repeater will include an antenna, a mobile station modem, a processor and data storage. The processor will cause the antenna to sweep over a coverage area, possibly through increments. At each increment, the antenna will receive signals and pass the signals to the MSM. The MSM will then apply a rake receiver to identify characteristics in the received signals, such as PN offsets and signal-to-noise ratios (EC/IO) for each PN offset, and the processor will record in the data storage the PN offsets and corresponding signal-to-noise ratios at that increment. Given this data, the processor will then instruct the antenna to move to the increment where the MSM detected the strongest signal-to-noise ratio. As a result, the antenna of the repeater will point at a base station that is likely to supply the signal with the highest signal-to-noise ratio.
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Ajibade Akonai Olumide T
Perez-Gutierrez Rafael
Sprint Spectrum L.P.
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