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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2000
Piu Bill Wong, Monte Serno, CA (US);
Shimon B. Scherzer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ravi Narasimhan, Los Altos, CA (US);
Metawave Communications Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a base station of a wireless communications system including an adaptive antenna array and beam forming means for forming simultaneous multiple forward link beams. Preferably mobile stations are separated into groups of mobile stations corresponding to a maximum number of simultaneous forward link beams for determining which of said groups can be served by compatible simultaneous forward link beams. Preferably, if mobiles remain outside of a compatible group, the number of simultaneous forward link beams is increased and grouping of the mobile stations is repeated until all the mobile stations are included in compatible groups. Preferably simultaneous data beams are formed to mobiles of a said group during a time interval accorded to said group, such that every mobile station receives service data during a full cycle of said time intervals at a rate equal to or in excess of a target service data rate for that mobile.