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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.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Anthony Acampora, Freehold, NJ (US);
Ta-Shing Chu, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Corrado Dragone, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Michael J Gans, Monmouth Beach, NJ (US);
Assignees:
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York, NY (US);
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ; H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 95 ; 455 33 ; 379 60 ; 342361 ; 3408258 ;
Abstract
A terrestrial radio system which utilizes spot beams, time division multiple access and frequency reuse to provide communications services from a base station to remote customers within a system service region. The base station advantageously is arranged with multistage switching so as to permit the respective sharing of radio transmitters and receivers over larger number of antenna transmitting and receiving ports.