Node-B/base station rake finger pooling

US6785322B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• InterDigital Technology Corporation · US

Inventors

• John Kaewell · Jamison, US
• Timothy Berghuis · Exton, US
• Jan Meyer · Weilheim, DE
• Peter Bohnhoff · Munich, DE
• Alexander Reznik · Titusville, US
• Edward L. Hepler · Malvern, US
• Michael Koch · Biberist, CH
• William C. Hackett · Doylestown, US
• David S. Bass · Great Neck, US
• Clyde Robbins · Masontown, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 27, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 31, 2004
• Expiry date: Dec 27, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04B2201/70711
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A Node-B/base station receiver comprises at least one antenna for receiving signals. Each finger of a pool of reconfigurable Rake fingers recovers a multipath component of a user and is assigned a code of the user, a code phase of the multipath component and an antenna of the at least one antenna. An antenna/Rake finger pool interface provides each finger of the Rake pool an output of the antenna assigned to that Rake finger. A combiner combines the recovered multipath components for a user to produce data of the user.