Wireless terrestrial communications systems using a line-of-sight frequency for inbound data and a non-line-of-sight frequency for outbound data

• US 8,571,499 B1
• Filed: 10/12/2010
• Issued: 10/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Harold Kirkpatrick
• Original Assignee: Harold Kirkpatrick
• Inventors: Kirkpatrick, Harold
• Primary Examiner(s): TRINH, TAN H
• Application Number:
  US12/902,482
• Time in Patent Office: 1,113 Days
• Field of Search: 455/7, 455/13.1, 455/12.1, 455/427, 455/3.02, 455/3.06, 455/3.01, 455/73, 455/414.1, 455/414.3, 455/63.4, 455/66.1, 455/67.15, 455/552.1, 455/556.1, 455/557, 455/562.1, 455/575.7, 370/316, 370/319, 370/326, 370/325, 370/395.1
• US Class Current: 455/127.4
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/00 Local resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/00 Network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/06 Airborne or Satellite Networks space-based or airborne stations H04B7/185

Abstract

A terrestrial communications system which comprises one or more terrestrial transmitting nodes for transmitting a first set of signals, one or more terrestrial receiving nodes for receiving a second set of signals, and a plurality of user units, each of the user units including a transceiver for transmitting the second set of signals to the terrestrial receiving nodes and for concurrently receiving the first set of signals from the respective terrestrial transmitting node, wherein the first set of signals are in a first frequency band between 11.0 GHz-13.0 GHz and wherein said second set of signals are in a second frequency band between 0.7 GHz-3.0 GHz.

Claims

1. A terrestrial communications system comprising:

one or more terrestrial transmitting nodes for transmitting a first set of signals to a plurality of user units;

one or more terrestrial receiving nodes for receiving a second set of signals from a plurality of user units; and

a plurality of user units, each of the user units including a transceiver for transmitting the second set of signals from the user unit to the terrestrial receiving nodes and for concurrently receiving at the user unit the first set of signals from the respective terrestrial transmitting node;

wherein the first set of signals are in a first frequency band between 11.0 GHz-13.0 GHz and wherein said second set of signals are in a second frequency band between 0.7 GHz-3.0 GHz.

2. The terrestrial communication system of claim 1 wherein the first frequency band is a satellite shared band.

3. The terrestrial communication system of claim 2, wherein the satellite shared band is the DBS band.

4. The terrestrial communication system of claim 1, further comprising a terrestrial communications means for transmitting the first set of signals to the terrestrial transmitting nodes and for receiving the second set of signals from the terrestrial receiving nodes.

5. The terrestrial communication system of claim 4, wherein the user units include personal computers.

6. The terrestrial communication system of claim 5, wherein the terrestrial communication means is connected to the Internet for providing the personal computers access to the Internet through the terrestrial communications means, the terrestrial transmitting nodes, and terrestrial receiving nodes.

7. A user unit that provides Internet access, comprising:

a wireless receiver that is configured to receive inbound data from an Internet service provider from a first terrestrial link; and

a wireless transmitter that is configured to wirelessly transmit outbound data to the Internet service provider from a second terrestrial wireless link;

wherein the frequency band of the first terrestrial link is in a first frequency band between 11.0 GHz-13.0 GHz and wherein the frequency band of the second terrestrial link is in a second frequency band between 0.7 GHz-3.0 GHz.

8. The user unit of claim 7, wherein the first frequency band is the DBS band.

9. The user unit of claim 7 wherein the first and second terrestrial links run a Wi-Max protocol.

10. The user unit of claim 7, wherein the second terrestrial link is a Time Division Multiple Access link, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) link, Space Division Multiple Access link or Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) link.

11. The user unit of claim 7, wherein the first terrestrial link is a Time Division Multiple Access link, a Code Division Multiple Access (COMA) link, Space Division Multiple Access link or Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) link.

12. A terrestrial communications system comprising:

one or more terrestrial base stations for transmitting a first set of signals to a plurality of user units and receiving a second set of signals from the plurality of user units; and

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each of the user units including a transceiver for transmitting the second set of signals to the base station and for concurrently receiving the first set of signals from the base station;

wherein the first set of signals are in a first frequency band between 11.0 GHz-13.0 GHz and wherein said second set of signals are in a second frequency band between 0.7 GHz-3.0 GHz.

13. The terrestrial communication system of claim 12, further comprising a terrestrial communications means for transmitting the first set of signals to the base station and for receiving the second set of signals from the terrestrial base stations.

14. The terrestrial communication system of claim 12, wherein the user units include personal computers.

15. The terrestrial communication system of claim 13, wherein the terrestrial communication means is connected to the Internet for providing the personal computers access to the Internet through the terrestrial communications means, and terrestrial base stations.

16. The terrestrial communication system of claim 12, wherein the first frequency band is the DBS band.

17. The terrestrial communication system of claim 16, wherein the terrestrial base station further comprises a transmit antenna for radiating the first set of signals.

18. The terrestrial communication system of claim 17, wherein the transmit antenna has a maximum gain and a vertical beam pattern that are designed to minimize the interference to DBS receivers.

19. The terrestrial communication system of claim 18, wherein the vertical beam pattern of the transmit antenna includes a beamwidth that is about 5 degrees or less and a sidelobe envelope towards ground that is about 15 dB or more below the maximum gain.

20. The terrestrial communication system of claim 17, wherein the transmit antenna is sectorized.