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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 12, 2016
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Byoung-Jo J. Kim, Morganville, NJ (US);

Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Amit Kumar Saha, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01); H04W 52/46 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 52/34 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/46 (2013.01); H04W 28/021 (2013.01); H04W 52/343 (2013.01); H04W 72/0426 (2013.01);
Abstract

Incorporation of a mesh base station in a wireless network is presented herein. The mesh base station can utilize common wireless resource allocations as a corresponding wireless base station while transmitting to wireless subscriber stations during the same time period. The mesh base station obtains a data packet from the wireless base station over a backhaul link during a scheduled time period and transmits the data packet to the designated wireless subscriber station during another scheduled time period. The wireless base station and the mesh base station can also receive data packets from wireless subscriber stations during a same time period. A wireless network can be configured with two mesh base stations at an approximate boundary of two adjacent sector coverage areas, where a coverage area is supported by a wireless base station and each mesh base station supports wireless subscriber stations within a coverage radius.


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