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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.

Patent No.:

US 10728714 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2017

Mobile communications network

Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Zaid Al-Daher, London, GB;

Richard Mackenzie, London, GB;

Michael Fitch, London, GB;

Assignee:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Attorney:

Patterson Thuente Pedersen, P.A.

Primary Examiner:

Curtis A Alia

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/40 (2018.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04W 76/40 (2018.02); H04W 76/27 (2018.02);
Abstract

A base station for a mobile communications network is disclosed, in which the base station includes a plurality of transmitters, in which each transmitter is configured to provide transmit radio signals to a plurality of mobile terminals; and a plurality of receivers, in which each receiver is configured to detect receive radio signals from the plurality of mobile terminals. The base station also includes a processor configured to interrogate each of the plurality of the mobile terminals for an indication of signal quality of a signal received by the mobile terminal; and to assign each of the plurality of the mobile terminals to one of two groups based on the received indications of signal quality. The mobile terminals assigned to the first group are those that indicate relatively low signal quality and the mobile terminals assigned to the second group are those that indicate relatively high signal quality. The plurality of transmitters are configured to communicate with at least some of the mobile terminals in the first group over unicast and to communicate with the mobile terminals in the second group over multicast.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Al-Daher, Zaid. (2020). Mobile communications network (U.S. Patent No. 10728714). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10728714

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