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Treble Investments Limited Liability Company

John F Schwaller

Jeffrey Wilson Smith

Terry L Williams

Thomas R Schmutz

John R Noll

David D Coons

Mark Nelson

Allen G Plum

Method for transferring service for a mobile station call signal from a first base transceiver station to a second base transceiver station in a wireless mobile telecommunication system, while a call is in progress. The method can include receiving at a base transceiver station an access burst from a mobile station with a call already in progress and requiring service from the base transceiver station. Based on the received access burst, the base transceiver station can electronically steer a beam of an adaptive antenna array of the base transceiver station toward a location of the mobile station.

Mobile station handover for base stations with adaptive antenna system

A method of frequency hopping is supported by a basestation having a broadband transceiver. The method permits changing physical channels upon which mobile subscribers communicate with the basestation, wherein the broadband transceiver is operated using static transceiver frequencies, the method exclusive of switching communication signals between transceivers. In one embodiment, the method maps baseband output signals from a digital channelizer which represent physical channels to ones of digital signal processors representing logical channels and baseband input signals of a digital combiner to ones of logical outputs of digital signal processors according to a mapping signal.

Method of baseband frequency hopping utilizing time division multiplexed mapping between a radio transceiver and digital signal processing resources

A wireless telephone architecture employs a broadband transceiver that is coupled to a digital channelizer and digital combiner, such as may employ a real-time Fast Fourier Transform, to extract or combine a set of simultaneous baseband signals. The baseband signals which represent physical channels are mapped to a bank of digital signal processors representing logical channels according to a mapping instituted at the initialization of the call. The mapping is changed on a periodic basis to follow a predetermined frequency hopping schedule. Frequency hopping is thus enabled in a statically tuned broadband transceiver.

Basestation architecture supporting baseband frequency hopping utilizing time division multiplexed mapping between a radio transceiver and digital signal processing resources

A control message communication mechanism for use in a broadband transceiver system that includes multiple digital signal processors for performing real time signal processing tasks. One of the digital signal processor (DSPs) is designated as a master DSP. The remainder of the DSPs are arranged in rows and columns to provide a two-dimensional array. A pair of bit-serial interfaces on each DSP are connected in a vertical bus and horizontal loop arrangement. The vertical bus arrangement provides a primary mechanism for the master DSP to communicate control messages to the array DSPs. The horizontal loop mechanism provides a secondary way for DSPs to communicate control information with one another, without involving the master DSP, such as may be required to handle a particular call, without interrupting the more time critical primary connectivity mechanism.

Multichannel broadband transceiver system making use of a distributed

A technique for transmitting wideband signals such as video signals over a communication system such as a cellular or Personal Communication System (PCS) which only has narrowband channels. The video signal is first digitized and compressed, and then forwarded to a commutating switch, together with any other narrowband signals which are to be transmitted using the same system. The commutating switch demultiplexes the video signal into multiple digital channel signals. The number of digital channel signals dedicated to carrying the video signals may vary as a system controller determines the availability of channel space in the system. The output channels from the switch are then each modulated as required by the particular wireless communication system in use, and forwarded to a digital combiner to produce a wideband composite signal. At a receiving site, the process is reversed, and a digital filter bank, or channelizer, separates the digital channel signals and forwards them to a set of digital demodulators. The demodulated signals are then fed to a multiplexing switch, which, under command from a controller which receives instructions from a system channel assignment controller, directs the channel signals containing the video information to a first-in first-out buffer memory. The reconstructed digital video signal is then decompressed and converted back to analog form for display.

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Palm Bay, FL, United States of America

John F Schwaller