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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1999
Santanu Dutta, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Motient Services Inc., Reston, VA (US);
Abstract
A method configures at least one channel group of a communication system. The channel group includes at least one forward channel and at least one return channel. A central station transmits data over the forward channel to a plurality of terminals, and transmissions by each terminal to the central station occur on a return channel. The method configures at least one channel group to include each forward channel and a selected number of return channels, which configuration is responsive to message traffic projections of each return channel. The selected number of return channels is generally limited to a maximum number of return channels when capacity of each forward channel of the channel group becomes exhausted.