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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dattakumar M. Chitre, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Soheil I. Sayegh, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Assignee:
Comsat Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/00 ; H04J 4/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/00 ; H04J 4/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for providing bandwidth on demand service in a wireless communication system having at least one user station, including a frequency divider for dividing a selected bandwidth into a plurality of frequency subdivisions. Also included is a unit for assigning a first number of frequency subdivisions to the individual user stations having a first total bandwidth, commensurate with the volume of transmission traffic. There also is a unit for changing the first number to a second number having a second total bandwidth commensurate with the change of the volume of transmission traffic.