Patent ID: 7720484
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. For use in a wireless network, a proxy translator to retransmit forward channel signals from a base station of said wireless network to a plurality of mobile stations accessing said wireless network, said proxy translator comprising: a plurality of proxy mobile stations dynamically configured to serve as substitutes for a first set of mobile stations within a radio frequency hole and a coverage area of said proxy translator and to receive a first set of forward channel signals transmitted by said base station to said first set of mobile stations and to receive a second set of forward channel signals transmitted by said base station to a second set of mobile stations, wherein said proxy mobile stations down-convert said first set of forward channel signals to produce a plurality of proxy signals; and a proxy base transceiver subsystem to receive said proxy signals from said proxy mobile stations, up-converting said proxy signals to produce a third set of forward channel signals based on said first set of forward channel signals, and transmitting said third set of forward channel signals to said first set of mobile stations, wherein the proxy base transceiver subsystem determines that said first set of mobiles stations are near or within an RF hole, transmits said third set of forward channel signals to said first set of mobile stations, and adjusts the power used to transmit the third set of forward channels transmitted to said first set of mobile stations so it does not create interference with the base station, and wherein the power is adjusted to only to be increased in the vicinity of the RF hole.