Wireless communication base station

US5724665A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. · US

Inventors

• Salman Yousef Abbasi · Clifton, US
• Farhad Barzegar · Readington, US
• Albert Benzimra · West Caldwell, US
• Irwin Gerszberg · Kendall Park, US
• Thomas Gerard Gvoth · Wayne, US
• Eugene T. Kendig · Brick, US
• Jeffrey S. Martin · Dover, US
• Thomas Oplinger · Morristown, US
• Richard F. Pace · Hackettstown, US
• Srini Ramamurthy · Lake Hiawatha, US
• Jesse Eugene Russell · Piscataway, US
• Thomas T. Shen · East Hanover, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 24, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 3, 1998
• Expiry date: Apr 24, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W84/16
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An intelligent wireless communication base station provides communication between individual base stations over an RF radio channel. A control unit in each base station utilizes this communication to facilitate each base station to gather system data regarding the system arrangement of nearby base stations and to facilitate handovers of mobile wireless personal communicators from one base station to a another base station. This control unit is under stored program control and gathers information concerning set up channels of nearby radio ports, a developed list or table of neighbor base stations and signal strength values of nearby channels. Voice channels may be bridged allowing two personal communicators to communicate with each other through a single base station.