Patent ID: 6243577
Filing Date: 2001-06-05
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
In a wireless telephone network operating at a first frequency band, the network having a plurality of user wireless handsets and network transceiver hubs, a system for extending the range of the transceiver hubs and the handsets, the system comprising:a hub frequency translation unit, for receiving incoming telephone signals transmitted from a user at a first predetermined frequency, for translating the incoming telephone signals to a second predetermined frequency, for receiving outgoing telephone signals at the second predetermined frequency, for translating the outgoing telephone signals to the first predetermined frequency, and for transmitting the outgoing telephone signals to be received by a user as incoming telephone signals; anda user frequency translation unit, for receiving the translated incoming telephone signals at the second predetermined frequency transmitted by the hub frequency translation unit, for translating those incoming telephone signals to the first predetermined frequency and coupling those translated incoming telephone signals to one of the transceiver hubs, for receiving outgoing telephone signals at the first predetermined frequency from that transceiver hub, for translating the outgoing telephone signals from the first predetermined frequency to the second predetermined frequency, and for transmitting those outgoing telephone signals to be received as the outgoing telephone signals received by the hub frequency translation unit.