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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2001
Richard B. Ertel, Midvale, UT (US);
Eric K. Hall, Holliday, UT (US);
Thomas R. Giallorenzi, Riverton, UT (US);
Philip L. Stephenson, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Johnny M. Harris, Centerville, UT (US);
Edward P. Newren, Woods Cross, UT (US);
Richard B. Ertel, Midvale, UT (US);
Eric K. Hall, Holliday, UT (US);
Thomas R. Giallorenzi, Riverton, UT (US);
Philip L. Stephenson, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Johnny M. Harris, Centerville, UT (US);
Edward P. Newren, Woods Cross, UT (US);
L-3 Communications Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
This invention provides a highly flexible multiplexing scheme for Direct Sequence CDMA systems enabling the CDMA system to flexibly allocate CDMA channel resources between packet-switched broadcast channels and fast-circuit-switched dedicated channels in order to optimize system throughput. A method and system are provided for operating a communication system. The method has steps of: flexibly allocating CDMA channel resources between packet-switched broadcast channels and fast-circuit-switched dedicated channels in order to optimize system throughput, and employing a side channel as required to send all or a part of a total amount of data, depending on the total amount of the data. A bandwidth allocation scheme allocates a set of CDMA channels for burst packet-switched channels, and data is time division multiplexed over the set of burst CDMA channels providing a wide bandwidth data pipe for packet-switched data. Subscriber stations are equipped with multiple CDMA channel receivers tuned to the burst CDMA channels.