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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1998
Dattakumar M. Chitre, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Anil K. Agarwal, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Prabhakar Gowrisankaran, Andover, MA (US);
John A. Lunsford, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Sathyanarayanan Narayanaswamy, Chicago, IL (US);
Dattakumar M. Chitre, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Anil K. Agarwal, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Prabhakar Gowrisankaran, Andover, MA (US);
John A. Lunsford, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Sathyanarayanan Narayanaswamy, Chicago, IL (US);
Viasat, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for encoding ATM cells for transmission over a wireless link comprising the steps of receiving an ATM cell stream comprised of a plurality of ATM cells and detecting idle/unassigned cells within the cell stream. Then, a header frame made up of headers of a number of the plurality of ATM cells is assembled, together with a payload frame made up of payloads of a number of the plurality of ATM cells. Finally, some of the detected idle/unassigned cells are placed in a selected portion of the payload frame.