DECT transmit-receive terminal and method for communicating between a DECT transmit-receive terminal and a DECT base station

US6690927B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. · DE

Inventors

• Juergen Hupp · Nuremberg, DE
• Udo Stoermer · Erlangen, DE
• Thomas Kleinhenz · Nuremberg, DE
• Albert Heuberger · Erlangen, DE
• Klaus Rebhan · Erlangen, DE
• Frank Noether · Nuremberg, DE
• Martin Tittel · Bad Berka, DE
• Heinz Gerhaeuser · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 8, 2002
• Grant date: Feb 10, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L1/20
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A DECT transmit-receive terminal comprises a plurality of transmit-receive antennas for communicating with a DECT base station, a device for determining the quality of a communications connection between the DECT transmit-receive terminal and the DECT base station, and a means for switching over from one transmit-receive antenna to another transmit-receive antenna, said switch-over means being connected to the determining device for switching over if the quality of the communications connection is below a predetermined threshold. An antenna diversity effect is thus realized for the DECT transmit-receive terminal by means of which the transmission quality of the communications connection is improved.