Patent ID: 6993361

Claim:
A wireless telecommunication system comprising: a plurality of base stations for conducting wireless RF communications with a mobile user equipment (UE); each based 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 an estimated location of a selected mobile UE relative to location data of antenna array systems of base stations having transmission ranges that encompass the estimated location of the selected UE; select a base station of the base stations having transmission ranges that encompass the estimated location of the selected UE; and output parameters to the beam former of the selected base station such that the selected base station transmits communication data for the selected UE in a shaped beam that encompasses the estimated location of the selected UE; wherein each base station antenna system has a plurality of modes M which provide different shapes of beams for the same phase and power; and each base station geolocation processor is configured to calculate transmission beam forming parameters as a function of phase φ, transmission power P and antenna system mode M and to output parameters to the respective beam former representing a selected combination of phase φ, transmission power P and antenna system mode M to control transmission beam formation.