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Method and apparatus providing enhanced reservation access mode for a CDMA reverse channel

US7146171B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 30, 2003
Grant dateDec 5, 2006
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Expiry dateSep 27, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L1/1812
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method is described for transmitting data from a mobile station to a wireless network, as is a wireless communications system that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes (a) requesting permission to transmit data using an access channel; (b) in response to receiving a permission message from the wireless network, transmitting the data from the mobile station to the wireless network over a control channel using a modulation and channel coding scheme determined in the wireless network, and communicated to mobile station in the permission message; and (c) in response to receiving the transmitted data at the wireless network, soft combining the received data with previously received data, if any, until a desired decoding result is achieved, and transmitting an acknowledgment of data reception to the mobile station. The steps of transmitting and receiving preferably use a code division, multiple access technique.

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