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Non-terrestrial cellular mobile telecommunication station

US6108539A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 29, 1997
Grant dateAug 22, 2000
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Expiry dateOct 29, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W84/06
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The non-terrestrial cellular mobile telecommunication station uses a number of non-interference techniques to extend the usage of existing cellular mobile telecommunication radio frequencies allocated for ground-based communications to the non-terrestrial realm. For example, the polarization of the signals produced by the antenna elements of the non-terrestrial cellular mobile telecommunication station is different than and preferably substantially orthogonal to the polarization of the cellular radio signals produced by the ground-based antennas to thereby minimize the possibility of interference with the ground-based radio signals. Furthermore, the control signals exchanged between the non-terrestrial mobile subscriber stations and the non-terrestrial cell site controller are architected to avoid the possibility of interference with ground-based cell site transmitter-receiver pairs. The transmit power of the non-terrestrial cellular mobile telecommunication station is also tightly controlled and of a magnitude to be rejected by the ground-based mobile subscriber stations and cell site transmitter-receiver pairs.

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