Base Transmitter Array Focused Data Communications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cellular and wireless communication systems face limitations in bandwidth, range, and capacity, making it costly and ineffective to provide focused data services to mobile devices, particularly due to inefficient use of infrastructure and frequency resources.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus utilizing a base transmitter array with multiple antennas that transmit data signals to client devices with specific time offsets, allowing for focused communication by summing signals at the client device to achieve clear reception while minimizing interference and expanding capacity by sharing frequencies among multiple clients.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If traditional cellular systems use infrastructure expansion to increase capacity, then network capacity improves, but cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple antenna elements into a unified array system that works together to serve multiple clients simultaneously. By merging the functionality of multiple antennas into a coordinated array, the system achieves increased network capacity without requiring proportional infrastructure expansion, as the same physical infrastructure serves multiple users through spatial multiplexing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces spatial dimensionality to traditional communication by using multiple antenna elements positioned in different locations. This adds a spatial dimension to signal transmission, allowing the system to differentiate between multiple clients in different spatial locations and provide focused communication to each client using the same frequency resources.
2Reliability
If traditional systems allocate separate frequencies to multiple clients, then communication reliability improves, but frequency resource utilization deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple communication channels onto a single frequency by using spatial separation through antenna arrays. Multiple clients share the same frequency resource simultaneously, with each client receiving focused signals from specific antenna elements, thereby improving frequency resource utilization while maintaining communication reliability through spatial differentiation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from frequency-based channel separation to spatial-based channel separation. By adding the spatial dimension through multiple antenna elements, the system can differentiate between clients in different locations using the same frequency, thus improving frequency resource utilization while maintaining reliability through spatial filtering and focused beamforming.
3Area of stationary object
If base transmitters transmit signals in all directions, then coverage area improves, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by directing communication energy specifically toward intended clients rather than uniformly in all directions. Each antenna element transmits with tailored amplitude and phase characteristics focused on specific client locations, providing localized high-quality signals where needed while reducing power consumption in directions without clients.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic signal focusing by continuously adjusting the amplitude and phase of each antenna element based on real-time client positions. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to concentrate power where clients are located and reduce transmission in other directions, optimizing the balance between coverage and power consumption as clients move.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach enhances communication efficiency by providing clear, focused signals to intended devices while reducing power consumption and increasing capacity, allowing for better coverage and battery life in mobile devices, and enabling simultaneous data transmission to multiple clients on the same frequency.
Implementation Method 1
A base transmitter array in communication with at least one client device transmits data
Data Source
AI summary
A method and apparatus for focused communication is disclosed. The method includes a base transmitter array in communication with at least one client device at the same frequency. The base transmitter array provides a focused data communication to the client device.