Two-way paging uplink infrastructure
First Claim
1. A method for operating the uplink portion of a two-way paging network comprising the steps of:
- providing a plurality of receivers at a receiver site, each said receiver coupled to a selected beam of a plurality of beams, said plurality of beams being divided among at least three multi-element arrays comprising dipoles over a ground plane, each array defining at least seven beams and substantially covering one-third of a horizontal circular region surrounding said receiver site, said plurality of beams dividing said region into sectors reached by individual ones of said plurality of beams; and
employing said receivers to receive messages transmitted from a plurality of pagers via said plurality of beams.
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Abstract
A substitute for the uplink infrastructure associated with typical two-way paging protocols. Instead of employing a microcellular arrangement of paging receiver sites, wherein each cell is served by its own receiver site, multiple cells are serviced from a single receiver site. The operation of the protocol need not be modified. A region surrounding the single receiver site is divided into angular sectors. Each angular sector has an associated beam of a multi-element antenna array. The sectors represent the cells used by prior art two-way paging infrastructure. This approach substantially reduces the cost of constructing and operating a two-way pager infrastructure.
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1. A method for operating the uplink portion of a two-way paging network comprising the steps of:
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providing a plurality of receivers at a receiver site, each said receiver coupled to a selected beam of a plurality of beams, said plurality of beams being divided among at least three multi-element arrays comprising dipoles over a ground plane, each array defining at least seven beams and substantially covering one-third of a horizontal circular region surrounding said receiver site, said plurality of beams dividing said region into sectors reached by individual ones of said plurality of beams; and employing said receivers to receive messages transmitted from a plurality of pagers via said plurality of beams. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. In a two-way paging network, a receiver system comprising:
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a plurality of receivers at a receiver site; and a beamforming network, each output of said beamforming network being coupled to one of said plurality of receivers, each input of said beamforming network being coupled to an element of a multi-element antenna array; so that each said receiver is coupled to a selected beam of a plurality of beams, said plurality of beams divided among three multi-element arrays arranged in a triangle, each multi-element array comprising dipoles over a ground plane and substantially covering one-third of a horizontal circular region surrounding said receiver site, each multi-element array defining at least seven beams and said plurality of beams dividing said region into sectors reached by individual ones of said plurality of beams. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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