US RE50,376 E1
Distributed antenna system with adaptive allocation between digitized RF data and IP formatted data
Lance K. Uyehara, San Jose, CA (US); and Boris Golubovic, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC, Richardson, TX (US)
Filed by CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/961,467.
Application 17/961,467 is a reissue of application No. 14/814,134, filed on Jul. 30, 2015, granted, now 10,797,759, issued on Oct. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/040,840, filed on Aug. 22, 2014.
Int. Cl. H04B 7/024 (2017.01)
CPC H04B 7/024 (2013.01) 54 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
[ 49. A system; comprising:
a first unit and a second unit communicatively coupled to the first unit using one or more Ethernet cables, wherein the one or more Ethernet cables include a plurality of Ethernet cables coupled in series between the first unit and the second unit, wherein the first unit includes:
a radio access network interface to communicate signals corresponding to wireless RF signals with a radio access network node, wherein the radio access network interface receives a signal corresponding to a downlink RF signal,
an Ethernet interface to communicate Ethernet signals with an Ethernet device coupled to the Ethernet interface, wherein the Ethernet interface receives data from the Ethernet device;
an interface configured to be coupled to at least one of the one or more Ethernet cables; and
a transport signal conversion circuit configured to transport digitized RF data corresponding to the signal from the radio access network node and the data from the Ethernet device over at least one of the one or more Ethernet cables in a transport signal to the second unit, the transport signal including a plurality of bits;
wherein the system is configured to adaptively adjust the number of bits that are allocated to the digitized RF data and the number of bits that are allocated to the data from the Ethernet device;
wherein the system is configured to provide an indication, to the second unit, of the number of bits in the transport signal that are allocated to the digitized RF data and the number of bits in the transport signal that are allocated to the data from the Ethernet device. ]