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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2000
Hitoshi Ueda, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a packet transfer method and system adapted to minimize delay in data and discard of data in a mobile communication system, and thus to provide improvements in processing ability and service quality in a base station and a switching center. A packet transfer method in a mobile communication system according to the present invention, the mobile communication system having a wire line for interconnecting a base station and a switching center, the wire line including a shared channel and a dedicated channel in which the shared channel can be shared by multiple terminals, while the dedicated channel can be used by only one of the terminals, and when a quantity of data transferred from the terminal is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, then the packet transfer method allocating the dedicated channel to the terminal, comprising that, in data transfer through the dedicated channel, when the data transferred from the terminal is waited because of an excessive quantity of transferred data, and further when a queuing data quantity of the data is equal to or greater than a predetermined delay data quantity-generating value, then another dedicated channel is allocated to the terminal, thereby transferring the data through the dedicated channel and such an additional dedicated channel until the queuing data quantity is equal to or less than a predetermined delay data quantity-restoring value.