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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1999
Applicants:
David Lahiri Bhatoolaul, Grange Park, GB;
Qiang Cao, Swindon, GB;
Seau Sian Lim, Swindon, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B001/00 ; H04B007/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a UMTS system, the AICH is arranged to send, in addition to signals acknowledging that a preamble () from a mobile () is at an acceptable strength, further signals () acknowledging message signals () from the mobile. Preferably the further signal () is a negative acknowledgement signal, indicating that a message () is corrupted. Application of the invention avoids the involvement of layer () in message acknowledgement.