Patent ID: 8543138
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of providing pages to subscriber stations over a wireless network within a transmission region, and near sector boundaries using a multi-sector broadcast channel, comprising: receiving data related to a list of all pages to be transmitted to subscriber stations in a paging region that has a plurality of sectors; generating a substantially identical waveform at a base station in each of the plurality of sectors; transmitting the substantially identical waveform concurrently from a subset of the sectors in the region to permit signal aggregation of waveforms over the air to page subscriber stations identified in the list of pages to be transmitted; providing an aggregate waveform to one or more subscriber stations, wherein the aggregate waveform comprises combined signal energy from at least two substantially identical waveform transmissions from at least two different sectors to improve spectral efficiency within the transmission region and near sector boundaries; and further comprising providing time slots synchronized across all sectors in the paging region during which individuals sectors in the region simultaneously transmit the substantially identical waveform.