Charles W Wolfe

US Patent:

6996086, Feb 7, 2006

Filed:

Apr 26, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/843204

Inventors:

Charles Wolfe - Encinitas CA, US
Larry Schnack - San Diego CA, US

Assignee:

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)

International Classification:

H04Q 7/24

US Classification:

370338, 3703102

Abstract:

A wireless communication network supporting mobile communications includes a mesh of radio base stations (RBSs) interconnected as packet data routing network. The RBSs are RF-coupled together so that adjacent ones may relay communications traffic to each other. By attaching to the mesh of radio base stations at one or more attachment points, communications traffic may be routed between a base station controller and any one of the radio base stations in the mesh based on configuring the appropriate route through the mesh. Preferably, the mesh is implemented as an IP-based routing network with each radio base station in the mesh operating as an addressable routing node within the mesh.

US Patent:

7321571, Jan 22, 2008

Filed:

Sep 27, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/256720

Inventors:

Larry Schnack - San Diego CA, US
Charles Wolfe - San Diego CA, US
Darrell Olps - San Diego CA, US

Assignee:

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)

International Classification:

H04J 3/08
H04B 7/216

US Classification:

370320, 370329, 370334, 370341, 370338, 370328, 370315, 455450, 455509, 455561

Abstract:

By using allocated spectrum from the mobile station air interface, one or more remote, child access points within a wireless communication network establish backhaul connections to a parent access point having conventional backhaul links to the network. In this manner, backhaul traffic is carried on the standard air interface coexistent with the normal mobile station traffic. Such an arrangement permits parent and child access points to use the standard air interface for both conventional mobile station traffic, as well as backhaul traffic. In an exemplary embodiment, a wireless cellular communication network establishes backhaul connections between one or more child Radio Base Stations (RBSs) and a parent RBS using one or more of the data channels defined by the network's air interface.