Digital multi-subscriber radio telecommunication system working with frequency jumping

• US 6,741,865 B1
• Filed: 01/16/2001
• Issued: 05/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Inventors: Beyer, Stefan, Heinen, Stefan
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ewart, James D
• Application Number:
  US09/674,630
• Time in Patent Office: 1,225 Days
• Field of Search: 455/74.1, 455/422.1, 455/426.1, 455/455, 455/462, 455/465, 455/516, 455/550.1, 370/229, 370/337, 370/347, 370/436, 370/442, 370/458, 370/478, 375/130, 375/131, 375/132, 375/133
• US Class Current: 455/465
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2618 using hybrid code-time division multiple access [CDMA-TDMA]

Abstract

In the digital multi-subscriber radio telecommunication system which operates using frequency hopping technology and is intended for use in the 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial Scientific and Medical) frequency band, in which a 20 dB channel bandwidth of a maximum of 1 MHz is prescribed, the known, DECT radio system operating using TDMA/FDMA technology is matched, in RF terms, to the ISM band and is modified such that the data transfer rate is reduced, preferably halved, by comparison with the data transfer rate of 1152 kbit/s, which is prescribed as standard for DECT. The system according to the invention can be used in cordless telephones.

Claims

1. A modified Digital European Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) system configured to operate using Time Division Multiple Access/Frequency Division Multiple Access (TDMA/FDMA) technology in the 2.4 GHz Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency band, the system comprising:

a 20 dB communication channel having a maximum bandwidth of 1 MHz; and

radio-frequency (RF) units, said RF units each matched to the ISM frequency band and configured to selectively communicate with others of said RF units via said communication channel, said RF units having a reduced data transfer rate of about 576 kbit/s being half of a prescribed DECT data transfer rate of about 1152 kbit/s, said RF units having a reduced channel separation reduced from a DECT channel separation of about 1728 kHz.

2. The modified DECT system according to claim 1, wherein a channel separation is likewise appropriately reduced by comparison with a prescribed DECT channel separation of 1728 kHz.

3. The modified DECT system according to claim 1, wherein time slots are combined to maintain a net data transfer rate.

4. The modified DECT system according to claim 1, wherein a channel separation is reduced from a prescribed DECT channel separation of 1728 kHz to 864 kHz.

5. The modified DECT system according to claim 1, wherein two time slots are combined to maintain a net data transfer rate.

6. The modified DECT system according to claim 1, wherein said RF units utilize transmitter modules and receiver modules provided for a conventional DECT system, and some of said modules are matched to the frequencies modified in comparison with the DECT standard.

7. The modified DECT system according to claim 6, wherein the modified frequencies are generated from a standard DECT system clock.

8. The modified DECT system according to claim 6, which comprises a radio-frequency (RF) part provided for use in DECT units and wherein, besides a matching of a front end to the frequency range of the ISM band, altered by comparison with the DECT standard, one IF filter is provided, and said IF filter is altered by comparison with IF filters used in DECT units and has half the bandwidth of the corresponding IF filters used in DECT units.

9. The improved radio telecommunication system according to claim 6, wherein the modified frequencies are generated from a standard DECT system clock.

10. The improved radio telecommunication system according to claim 6, which comprises a radio-frequency part provided for use in DECT units, and one IF filter provided besides a matching of a front end to the frequency range of the ISM band, being altered by comparison with DECT standards, said IF filter being altered by comparison with IF filters used in DECT units and having half the bandwidth of the corresponding IF filters used in DECT units.

11. The modified DECT system according to claim 1 implemented in cordless telephones.

12. In a digital multi-subscriber radio telecommunication system operated with frequency hopping technology and in the 2.4 GHz Industrial Scientific and Medical frequency band, a prescribed 20 dB channel bandwidth of a maximum of 1 MHz that must be adhered to, the improvement which comprises:

a modification to a Digital European Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) radio system, operated with TDMA/FDMA technology (Time Division Multiple Access/Frequency Division Multiple Access), having a data transfer rate reduced to half a data transfer rate prescribed by DECT standards (from about 1152 kbit/s to about 576 kbit/s), and radio-frequency parts of units used in the system being matched to an Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency band, being altered by comparison with DECT standards.

13. The improved radio telecommunication system according to claim 12, wherein a channel spacing is likewise appropriately reduced by comparison with a channel spacing of 1728 kHz prescribed by DECT standards.

14. The improved radio telecommunication system according to claim 12, wherein time slots are combined to maintain a net data transfer rate.

15. The improved radio telecommunication system according to claim 12, wherein a channel spacing is reduced from a channel spacing of 1728 kHz prescribed in DECT standards to 864 kHz.

16. The improved radio telecommunication system according to claim 12, wherein two time slots are combined to maintain a net data transfer rate.

17. The improved radio telecommunication system according to claim 12, wherein the system utilizes transmitter modules and receiver modules provided for a conventional DECT system, and some of said modules are matched to the frequencies modified in comparison with DECT standards.

18. The improved radio telecommunication system according to claim 12 implemented in cordless telephones.

19. A digital multi-subscriber radio telecommunication system operating with frequency hopping technology and intended for use in the 2.4 GHz Industrial Scientific and Medical frequency band, having a prescribed 20 dB channel bandwidth of a maximum of 1 MHz that must be adhered to, the system comprising:

a modification to the known Digital European Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) radio system, operated with Time Division Multiple Access/Frequency Division Multiple Access (TDMA/FDMA) technology, having a data transfer rate reduced to half a prescribed DECT data transfer rate and provision for radio-frequency parts of units used in the system to be matched to an Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency band, altered by comparison with the DECT standard;

DECT units each having transmitter modules and receiver modules, some of said DECT units being matched to the frequencies modified by comparison with the DECT standard; and

a radio-frequency (RF) part provided for use in said DECT units, said RF part having just one IF filter altered by comparison with IF filters used in others of said DECT units and having half the bandwidth of corresponding DECT IF filters.