Patent ID: 11949468
Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A distributed antenna system comprising:
a first remote antenna unit configured to receive a first broadband uplink signal and divide the first broadband uplink signal into a first plurality of narrowband uplink signals;
a second remote antenna unit configured to receive a second broadband uplink signal and divide the second broadband uplink signal into a second plurality of narrowband uplink signals; and
a unit communicatively coupled to the first remote antenna unit and the second remote antenna unit and communicatively couplable to a base station, wherein the unit is configured to:
select a first subset of narrowband uplink signals from the first plurality of narrowband uplink signals and a second subset of narrowband uplink signals from the second plurality of narrowband uplink signals based on the first subset of narrowband uplink signals and the second subset of narrowband uplink signals having a characteristic indicative of useful information,
combine the selected first subset of narrowband uplink signals and the selected second subset of narrowband uplink signals for routing to the base station, and
exclude narrowband uplink signals outside the selected first subset of narrowband uplink signals and the selected second subset of narrowband uplink signals from the combining operation.