Patent ID: 7970348

Claim:
A method for simultaneously transmitting signals into a cell of a cellular system utilizing narrow-beams and non-coherent signal paths, the method comprising: selecting an information signal to a specific user #k to be transmitted via a dedicated channel; using simultaneously two fixed narrow-beams from a single group of antenna elements having a number of fixed narrow beams #n, utilizing orthogonal polarization for the two fixed narrow-beams; dedicating the two fixed narrow-beams as beam # 1 and beam # 2 ; selecting the dedicated channel to be the dedicated fixed narrow-beam # 1 or beam # 2 based upon direction/angular/spatial information; and producing a broadcast signal transmission from said single group of antenna elements, said broadcast signal transmission defining a total cell coverage, the broadcast signal transmission matching the coverage of the fixed narrow-beams #n; dividing the broadcast signal transmission into separate broadcast signal streams, one for each of the two fixed narrow-beams; and wherein the antenna elements of the group which carry the two fixed narrow-beams also carry the broadcast signal information in separate narrow beams.