Patent ID: 7085530

Claim:
An apparatus for wireless cellular telephone communication, comprising: a) a plurality of slave transceivers spatially separated from one another within an enclosed region, each of the slave transceivers comprising an associated slave central processing unit (slave-CPU), each slave-CPU being adapted to control at least one adjustable operational parameter of its associated slave transceiver in response to at least one characteristic of a received reverse radio frequency (RF) telephone signal, and each slave transceiver being adapted to: i) receive the reverse RF telephone signal; ii) process the received RF telephone signal based on at least one of the adjustable operational parameters; and iii) generate a reverse slave telephone signal; b) a master transceiver coupled to the plurality of slave transceivers, the master transceiver being adapted to: i) convey setting signals to the plurality of slave transceivers so as to set the adjustable operational parameters thereof; ii) receive and process the reverse slave telephone signals from the plurality of slave transceivers, so as to generate corresponding reverse master telephone signals; and iii) convey the reverse master telephone signals to at least one base station transceiver subsystem (BTS) external to the region; and wherein at least one of the slave-CPUs is adapted to vary a size of a coverage area provided by an associated slave transceiver, and the at least one slave-CPU varies the size of the coverage area provided by the associated slave transceiver responsive to instructions received from one of the following: the at least one slave-CPU associated with the slave transceiver independent of the master transceiver; the at least one slave-CPU associated with the slave transceiver in combination with the master transceiver; and the master transceiver independent of the at least one slave-CPU associated with the slave transceiver.