Access terminal router implementation on enhanced HRPD
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1. In a wireless communication system including an access terminal and at least two base stations, a method for providing a communications path between a first base station and a second base station via the access terminal comprising the steps of:
- providing the access terminal with a transmission/reception capability complementary with that of both the first and second base stations; and
causing the access terminal to receive traffic transmitted by the first base station and in turn retransmit the message to the second base station.
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An enhanced access terminal (AT) that can serve as a “proxy wireless over-the-air backhaul or relay” is provided, to connect a base station with no backhaul to its neighboring fully functional base station that is connected to the NMS. In a further embodiment, the AT routing and relaying capability provided by the invention is extended to new OFDM based air-interface technologies being considered for 4th generation cellular standards such as LTE, UMB and WiMAX.
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1. In a wireless communication system including an access terminal and at least two base stations, a method for providing a communications path between a first base station and a second base station via the access terminal comprising the steps of:
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providing the access terminal with a transmission/reception capability complementary with that of both the first and second base stations; and causing the access terminal to receive traffic transmitted by the first base station and in turn retransmit the message to the second base station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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- 6. An access terminal established to concurrently transmit via a wireless medium two or more independent streams of data to two or more base stations, each data stream being transmitted to a different base station.
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