Patent ID: 6198435
Filing Date: 2001-03-06
Classification: H01Q,H04W

Abstract:
A system for providing increased trunking efficiency in a sectored communication system having a radiation pattern associated with a communication device, wherein the communication device includes a plurality of inputs ones of which are associated with a particular sector of said sectored communication system, said system comprising:means for providing a plurality of predefined antenna beams composited to form said radiation pattern, each beam having a discrete signal associated therewith suitable for input into said inputs of said communication device;means for coupling select ones of the discrete signals to particular ones of the plurality of inputs, wherein a first sector of said plurality of sectors is at least in part defined as a function of a particular one of said discrete signals coupled to a first input of said communication device, and wherein a second sector of said plurality of sectors is at least in part defined as a function of said particular one of said discrete signals coupled to a second input of said communication device; andmeans for assigning one of said first sector and said second sector to a subscriber unit operating within an antenna beam associated with said particular one of said discrete signals.