Patent ID: 11937199
Assignee: PIVOTAL COMMWARE, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A wireless repeater, comprising:
a first antenna for communication with a wireless base station;
a second antenna for communication with user equipment;
one or more of switches, amplifiers, or attenuators coupled to the first and second antennas for alternation between uplink and downlink modes; and
a timing recovery system coupled to the one or more of switches, amplifiers, or attenuators and configured to carry out a method to operate the wireless repeater, comprising:
receiving a reference to absolute time for communication on a wireless network;
determining a reference to start time of a radio frame relative to the absolute time;
determining a slot pattern for communication on the wireless network; and
determining a schedule for switching the wireless repeater between uplink and downlink based on the received absolute time reference, the determined radio frame start time, and the determined slot pattern.