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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:
Mar. 01, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 19, 2008
Applicants:

Yair Oren, Washington, DC (US);

Ofer Saban, Vienna, VA (US);

Inventors:

Yair Oren, Washington, DC (US);

Ofer Saban, Vienna, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/04 (2006.01); H04B 7/02 (2006.01); H04B 1/10 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 15/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0491 (2013.01); H04B 1/109 (2013.01); H04B 1/1027 (2013.01); H04B 7/024 (2013.01); H04B 7/0874 (2013.01); H04B 15/00 (2013.01); H04L 1/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is directed to improvements for distributed antenna systems and more particularly to methods and systems for improving uplink communications. In one embodiment, Aggregation Point Noise Blocking provides for blocking or filtering the noise contributed by one or more of the branches coupled to an aggregation point that are not carrying the signal from a particular terminal. Signal activity from a given terminal on a particular branch can be identified and that information can be used to selectively block or filter the signal noise contributed by the other branches to an aggregation point. The selective blocking or filtering can also include an attenuation function to attenuate the signal and provide dynamic range smoothing. In another embodiment the signal can be regenerated to produce a signal that has a restored or very high SNR. An uplink regeneration block can be provided which demodulates the uplink signal to recover the transmitted information and then re-modulates the transmitted information to regenerate a signal at a restored or very high SNR.


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