Dynamic sectorization in a spread spectrum communication system

• US 7,653,149 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2001
• Issued: 01/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Thompson, James H., Strich, W. Eli
• Primary Examiner(s): Torres; Juan A
• Application Number:
  US10/021,865
• Publication Number:
  US 20020054580A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,962 Days
• Field of Search: 375/347, 375/130, 375/147, 375/310, 370/320, 370/206
• US Class Current: 375/310
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/06 Hybrid resource partitioning, e.g. channel borrowing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/24 Cell structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/28 using beam steering

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