EDWARD P CHAMPY
Broker in Boston, MA

2002007, Jun 20, 2002

Dec 15, 2000

09/737511

Thomas Johnson - Bedford NH, US
Edward Champy - South Boston MA, US

H04M001/00

455/562000, 455/272000

Wireless communication systems and methods using multiple overlapping sectored cells. Two or more cells in which communication services are provided to a number of subscriber stations at least partially overlap in an overlapping region and are each divided into a number of sectors. A first cell uses a first group of channels to communicate with at least some subscriber stations that are located in the first cell, and a second cell uses a second group of channels to communicate with at least some subscriber stations that are located in the second cell. The sectored cells use different communication channels in respective overlapping sectors of the overlapping region. In this manner, one or more first cells may be deployed with one or more second cells either initially or in a modular fashion over time to flexibly accommodate various topological distributions of subscriber stations and varying capacity demands in a wireless communication system without posing significant interference problems. In one example, at least one cell (e.g., a “focal” cell) covers a smaller area than another cell (e.g., a larger “base” cell) with which it at least partially overlaps. One or more such focal cells also may be completely contained within a larger base cell to provide communication services in particular higher density and/or higher capacity demand regions of the base cell.

2002015, Oct 17, 2002

Jun 8, 2001

09/877242

Thomas Johnson - Bedford NH, US
Edward Champy - South Boston MA, US
Donald Mills - Bedford NH, US

H04Q007/20

455/447000, 455/515000

Two or more sectors of a coverage area of a wireless communication system may be linked together to form a wide area network. Each sector is associated with at least one radiation pattern carrying information, and the sectors forming the wide area network share at least some of the same information. One base station modem used to encode and decode information may be coupled to two or more radio transceivers, wherein each transceiver is associated with a different sector. In this manner, two or more differently geographically disposed sectors essentially function as one wide area network, in that the multiple sectors are served by one base station modem. The number of sectors that are selected to be serviced by a particular base station modem may be based at least in part on one or more of a capacity demand and a topological distribution of subscriber stations in at least a portion of the coverage area.