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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Keita Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Noriyuki Ota, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Terada, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A relay device for relaying communications between a plurality of radio devices that perform radio communications with a terminal and a radio control apparatus that controls the plurality of radio devices, the relay device including a plurality of signal combiners that are each provided for one of functional splitting points between the plurality of radio devices and the radio control apparatus, and are each configured to convert signal data transmitted from one of the plurality of radio devices based on a signal format in accordance with the one of the functional splitting points, and transmit the converted signal data to the radio control apparatus, and a signal switcher configured to output the signal data transmitted from the one of the plurality of radio devices, to one of the plurality of signal combiners supporting one of the functional splitting points that corresponds to the one of the plurality of radio devices.