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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1998
Steven Anthony Falco, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Stephen Gregory Strickland, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Ming-Hsu Tu, Somerset, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method that selects one of a plurality of priority schemes for scheduling messages for one of cyclically repeating sets of time slots of a control channel based on at least one of a plurality of characteristics of the state of the control channel. The state of the control channel is all information regarding what has arrived, what is queued, and what has been transmitted. This includes the status of the queues, the messages awaiting transmission, along with their type and the time they have been waiting, the sequence of past transmissions, as well as other information.