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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2006
Applicant:
Mitchell D. Trott, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mitchell D. Trott, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
ArrayComm, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided that allows a single spatially directed broadcast burst to serve users throughout a base station sector. In one embodiment, the invention includes sending a first segment of a broadcast channel burst using a first set of unchanging spatial parameters from an array of antenna elements, and sending a second segment of the broadcast channel burst using a second set of different unchanging spatial parameters from the array of antenna elements.