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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1999
Douglas O. Reudink, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mark D. Reudink, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas W. Hammond, Peoria, IL (US);
Scot D. Gordon, Seattle, WA (US);
Sheldon K. Meredith, Duvall, WA (US);
Curtis F. McClive, Redmond, WA (US);
Metawave Communications Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for improving trunking efficiency of a sectored cell by providing overlapping sectors. The disclosed invention teaches the use of multiple narrow beams composited to form a radiation pattern. Signals associated with each such narrow beam may be provided to inputs of a base station signal quality measuring device for assigning a mobile to a particular sector during call origination which inputs are associated with a particular sector of the radiation pattern. The number of narrow beam signals provided inputs associated with a particular sector defines the azimuthal width of that sector. By providing a same antenna beam signal to multiple sector inputs, overlapping sectors are defined.