Edward Paul Newren

US Patent:

20020051462, May 2, 2002

Filed:

Apr 9, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/829092

Inventors:

Richard Ertel - Midvale UT, US
Eric Hall - Holliday UT, US
Thomas Giallorenzi - Riverton UT, US
Philip Stephenson - Salt Lake City UT, US
Johnny Harris - Centerville UT, US
Edward Newren - Woods Cross UT, US

Assignee:

L-3 Communications Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

H04Q007/00

US Classification:

370/442000, 370/329000

Abstract:

This invention provides a highly flexible multiplexing scheme for Direct Sequence CDMA systems enabling the CDMA system to flexibly allocate CDMA channel resources between packet-switched broadcast channels and fast-circuit-switched dedicated channels in order to optimize system throughput. A method and system are provided for operating a communication system. The method has steps of: flexibly allocating CDMA channel resources between packet-switched broadcast channels and fast-circuit-switched dedicated channels in order to optimize system throughput, and employing a side channel as required to send all or a part of a total amount of data, depending on the total amount of the data. A bandwidth allocation scheme allocates a set of CDMA channels for burst packet-switched channels, and data is time division multiplexed over the set of burst CDMA channels providing a wide bandwidth data pipe for packet-switched data.. Subscriber stations are equipped with multiple CDMA channel receivers tuned to the burst CDMA channels.