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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1997
Mark C Cudak, McHenry, IL (US);
James R Kelton, Oak Park, IL (US);
Phillip D Rasky, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Bruce D Mueller, Palatine, IL (US);
Kadathur S Natarajan, Wilmette, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method/protocol (400, 800) and device (600; 700) for transmitting a synchronous stream of information, in a wireless, centrally controlled communication system. The method includes the steps of parsing the synchronous stream of information into a plurality of predetermined fixed sized blocks and transmitting/retransmitting each fixed size block in a predetermined window of time until one of: reception of each fixed size block is positively acknowledged and each corresponding predetermined window of time has elapsed.