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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:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2001
Applicants:
Mano D. Judd, Rockwall, TX (US);
Gregory A. Maca, Rockwall, TX (US);
Joel C. Roper, Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Andrew Corporation, Westchester, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 (2006.01); H04M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system for sharing a cellular tower among multiple service providers comprises an antenna having an array of elements operable to define multiple, individual beams for signals in a communication frequency band and converter circuitry to convert the communication frequency band to a digital band. Filtering and signal processing circuitry define digital band portions for each of the at least two service providers, and drive the antenna to define at least one individual beam for each individual service provider.