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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. 20, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 26, 2013
Applicant:

Kt Corporation, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Hyung-Jung Kim, Seoul, KR;

Jong-Sik Lee, Seoul, KR;

Sung-Yeop Pyun, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

KT CORPORATION, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/22 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04W 16/08 (2009.01); H04W 16/32 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/22 (2013.01); H04W 16/08 (2013.01); H04W 16/32 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

A hub apparatus may be provided for distributing a load of a small cell digital unit to a macro cell digital unit in a heterogeneous network. The hub apparatus includes an offloading controller configured to determine a first small cell, as an offloading target among a plurality of small cells based on a load of the macro cell digital unit and the small cell digital unit, to determine a first digital unit processing a load of the first small cell among at least one macro cell digital unit, to that generate a first control signal that requests connection to the first digital unit and a low-power radio unit of the first small cell, a path change unit connected to each of an antenna, having one side installed in the macro cell and a low-power radio unit installed in each small cell, having the other side connected to each of the macro cell digital unit and the small cell digital unit, configured to form a path connecting the one side and the other side, and configured to change a digital unit connected to a corresponding low-power radio unit based on the first control signal.


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