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Relayed signal communications

US7974227B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 2, 2003
Grant dateJul 5, 2011
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 13, 2030

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L63/102
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A relay terminal for relaying communication signals from originator user terminals to destination user terminals stores relay-authorization-and-priority data for a plurality of user terminals having respective identification codes; detects the identification codes in communication signals sent from a plurality of originator terminals; processes the detected identification codes in combination with the stored data to determine if immediate relaying of the received communication signals to respective identified destination terminals is authorized; and relays the received communication signals immediately to only those of the identified destination terminals to which immediate relaying is so authorized. Directional-position data associated with a given originator terminal derived by processing portions of a signal received from such originator terminal is processed to form a beam path for communications with the given originator terminal.

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