Gwcom, Inc.

Arlin Torbett

Raymond Chin

Weijia Wang

A wireless communication network includes numerous mobile terminals and numerous transceivers (&ldquo;base stations&rdquo;). In this wireless communication network, messages sent from the base stations to the mobile terminals are transmitted at a higher data rate than the messages sent from the mobile terminals to the base stations. In one embodiment, a &ldquo;half-duplex&rdquo; protocol assigns separate times slots for base stations and mobile terminal transmissions. In another embodiment, a modified &ldquo;full-duplex&rdquo; protocol provides &ldquo;half-duplex&rdquo; operation in the mobile terminals and &ldquo;full-duplex&rdquo;operation in the base stations.

Asymmetrical data rates and power in wireless digital communication

A system and a method provide a communication network using time-division multiplexing and a single frequency to achieve maximum utilization of the spectrum and the available bandwidth. In one embodiment, time-division multiplexing is used to share the bandwidth between a wide-area transmitter, operating over a designated service area, and numerous simultaneous channels using the same frequency between local base stations and their associated user terminals. Each local base station is assigned a different non-overlapping portion of the designated service area. The communication network can accommodate devices of different data rates.

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Atherton, CA, United States of America

Arlin Torbett