Patent ID: 11924703
Assignee: AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A method comprising:
receiving incoming signals from a base station and transmitting outgoing signals via antenna circuitry;
using remote modem circuitry, connected to the antenna circuitry by analog cabling, to demodulate a first incoming signal of the incoming signals, as received by the antenna circuitry, to produce first incoming data;
using control circuitry that is remote from the remote modem circuitry and is connected to the remote modem circuitry via digital cabling to determine whether to control the remote modem circuitry to receive data from a different base station and to receive the first incoming data from the remote modem circuitry; and
using the control circuitry to determine whether to control the remote modem circuitry to receive data from a different base station,
wherein the control circuitry is internal to a vehicle and the remote modem circuitry is external to the vehicle, and
wherein the method further includes:
using further modem circuitry to demodulate a second incoming signal of the incoming signals to produce second incoming data and to provide the second incoming data to the control circuitry;
using the control circuitry to determine whether to control the further modem circuitry to receive data from a different base station; and
using beamforming circuitry to perform beamforming using the remote modem circuitry and the further modem circuitry.