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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1995
Mahendra Patel, Brandon, FL (US);
Robert E Scott, Indian Rocks Beach, FL (US);
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In transmitting information over a cellular communications channel to an opposite endpoint, a modem's autorating routine is 'data-driven.' In particular, when the amount of information to transmit to the opposite endpoint is low, the modem's data rate is low e.g., 4800 bps, and the modem's ability to autorate upwards, i.e., fallforward, is disabled. However, when the amount of information to transmit to the opposite endpoint is high the modem's ability to fallforward is enabled so that the modem's data rate can increase to the highest permissible data rate for the cellular channel in order to transmit large blocks of information.