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TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD

  • US 20100208643A1
  • Filed: 04/09/2008
  • Published: 08/19/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A telecommunications system for communicating data to and from a mobile device, the system comprisinga plurality of repeater nodes disposed to form a network, each repeater node having a transceiver unit operable to transmit the data with a first transmission power to one or more others of the repeater nodes within one of a plurality of slots of a time frame, each repeater node being allocated one of the time slots of the time frame, the mobile device being arranged to transmit and receive data to and from one or more of the repeater nodes in the network in one of the time slots of the time frame, whereineach of the repeater nodes is operable to transmit a pilot signal during the same one of the time slots of the time frame with a second transmission power, the second power being less than the first transmission power, the pilot signal including an identifier of the repeater node which is transmitted with the pilot signal, andthe mobile device is operable to receive the pilot signal from one of the repeater nodes and from the identifier included in the received pilot signal to transmit data to the repeater node identified by the identifier.

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