Information transfer between and end user and a radio network, involving the user's wlan-or corresponding identifier and a sub-base station server
First Claim
1. A method for transferring information between an end user and a radio network, comprising the user'"'"'s WLAN-identifier or other data terminal equipment giving a usable identifier and an antenna and sub-base station connected to it, the field of the transmitter/receiver of which is divided into sectors, in which case the sub-base station is linked in a suitable way with possible other base stations and through the main station to the network, in which case a transmitter and receiver have been arranged in each directional segment at least in a sub-base station interacting with a customer and if desired also in other base stations, characterized in that a local server situated in each sector segment or at least a cache memory/cache memory logic is used for information transfer.
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Abstract
A method and equipment for transferring information between base stations and between a base station and an end user using a wireless network solution. The base station is divided into sectors, in which case each sector of a base section is separately a base station. In this case, each sector has its own transmitter/receiver and server or cache memory, at least. Many tasks that have loaded the whole network earlier, such as user identification, are now transferred to the server of the sub-base station. The invention is especially meant to be used with the assistance of WLAN-cards, in which case the identification is performed through both the number of the WLAN-card and the user name and password.
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- 1. A method for transferring information between an end user and a radio network, comprising the user'"'"'s WLAN-identifier or other data terminal equipment giving a usable identifier and an antenna and sub-base station connected to it, the field of the transmitter/receiver of which is divided into sectors, in which case the sub-base station is linked in a suitable way with possible other base stations and through the main station to the network, in which case a transmitter and receiver have been arranged in each directional segment at least in a sub-base station interacting with a customer and if desired also in other base stations, characterized in that a local server situated in each sector segment or at least a cache memory/cache memory logic is used for information transfer.
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7. A method according to any of the abov claims, characterized in that in a case of malfunction of ordinary information transfer, the information passag is routed again automatically, for example, from the antenna sector segment of the same antenna directed in the same direction, but situated in a different layer, or from an antenna sector segment directed in a different direction through another sub-base station or main base station.
- 12. Equipment for transferring information between an end user and a radio network comprising a terminal device (4) which gives the user'"'"'s WLAN-identifier and an antenna (5) and sub-base station (3) attached to it, the transmitter/receiver field of which is divided into sectors, in which case the sub-base station is linked, in a suitable way, to possible other base stations (2) and through the main station (1) to the network, in which case a transmitter and a receiver is in at least each sector segment (s) of a sub-base station (3) interacting with a customer, characterized in that each sector segment also comprises a local server or at least a cache memory/cache memory logic.
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