Patent ID: 7016702

Claim:
A wireless telecommunication system comprising: a plurality of base stations for conducting wireless RF communications with a plurality of user equipments (UEs); each base station having: an RF module and an associated antenna system that is located at a predetermined position and a geographic transmission range which overlaps with the transmission range of at least one other of said base stations; and a beam former operatively associated with the RF module to form a set of desired beams within a range of beams which the base station's antenna array system is capable of producing; a network interface interconnecting said base stations and one or more associated geolocation processors configured to: process UE geolocation data that corresponds to estimated locations of selected UEs relative to location data of antenna array systems of base stations having transmission ranges that encompass the estimated locations of the selected UEs; apportion said selected UEs into groups, each group for maintaining communications with a selected base station of base stations having transmission ranges that encompass the estimated locations of the selected UEs; and output selected parameters to the beam formers of base stations having transmission ranges that encompass the estimated locations such that a selected base station transmits communication data for each UE of the corresponding group of apportioned UEs in a shaped beam that encompasses the estimated location of the respective UE.