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Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000

Filed:

Oct. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

J C Ray, Denison, TX (US);

Robert L George, Plano, TX (US);

Daniel B McKenna, Broomfield, CO (US);

Assignee:

AirCell, Incorporated, Boulder, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455430 ; 455427 ; 455431 ;
Abstract

The non-terrestrial cellular mobile telecommunication station uses a number of non-interference techniques to extend the usage of existing cellular mobile telecommunication radio frequencies allocated for ground-based communications to the non-terrestrial realm. For example, the polarization of the signals produced by the antenna elements of the non-terrestrial cellular mobile telecommunication station is different than and preferably substantially orthogonal to the polarization of the cellular radio signals produced by the ground-based antennas to thereby minimize the possibility of interference with the ground-based radio signals. Furthermore, the control signals exchanged between the non-terrestrial mobile subscriber stations and the non-terrestrial cell site controller are architected to avoid the possibility of interference with ground-based cell site transmitter-receiver pairs. The transmit power of the non-terrestrial cellular mobile telecommunication station is also tightly controlled and of a magnitude to be rejected by the ground-based mobile subscriber stations and cell site transmitter-receiver pairs.


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