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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2004
Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Concord, MA (US);
Aleksandar Damnjanovic, San Diego, CA (US);
Avinash Jain, San Diego, CA (US);
Durga P. Malladi, San Diego, CA (US);
David Puig Oses, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US);
Serge Willenegger, Onnens, CH;
Stein Lundby, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Sandip Sarkar, San Diego, CA (US);
Tao Chen, La Jolla, CA (US);
Yongbin Wei, San Diego, CA (US);
Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Concord, MA (US);
Aleksandar Damnjanovic, San Diego, CA (US);
Avinash Jain, San Diego, CA (US);
Durga P. Malladi, San Diego, CA (US);
David Puig Oses, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US);
Serge Willenegger, Onnens, CH;
Stein Lundby, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Sandip Sarkar, San Diego, CA (US);
Tao Chen, La Jolla, CA (US);
Yongbin Wei, San Diego, CA (US);
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein address the need in the art for efficient management of grant, acknowledgement, and rate control channels. In one aspect, a list associated with a first station is generated or stored, the list comprising zero or more identifiers, each identifier identifying one of a plurality of second stations for sending a message to the first station. In another aspect, sets of lists for one or more first stations are generated or stored. In yet another aspect, the messages may be acknowledgements, rate control commands, or grants. In yet another aspect, messages comprising one or more identifiers in the list are generated. Various other aspects are also presented. These aspects have the benefit of reduced overhead while managing grant, acknowledgment and rate control messaging for one or more remote stations.