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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2008
Applicants:

G. J. Foschini, South Amboy, NJ (US);

Howard C. Huang, New York, NY (US);

Angel Lozano, Barcelona, ES;

Reinaldo Valenzuela, Holmdel, NJ (US);

Sivarama Venkatesan, Milltown, NJ (US);

Inventors:

G. J. Foschini, South Amboy, NJ (US);

Howard C. Huang, New York, NY (US);

Angel Lozano, Barcelona, ES;

Reinaldo Valenzuela, Holmdel, NJ (US);

Sivarama Venkatesan, Milltown, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 16/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 16/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a method of forming clusters of cells in a wireless communication system. The method includes accessing information generated by measuring channel conditions for at least one mobile unit and a plurality of cells in the wireless communication system. The method also includes adding more than one of the plurality of cells to at least one cell cluster based on the accessed information and coordinating communication between the cells in each cell cluster and the mobile unit(s).


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