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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2006
Zhouyue Pi, San Diego, CA (US);
Zhigang Rong, San Diego, CA (US);
Lin MA, San Diego, CA (US);
Fei Frank Zhou, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark W. Cheng, San Diego, CA (US);
Jian Gu, Huangqi Nanhai Guangdong, CN;
Zhu Yuan, Beijing, CN;
Zhouyue Pi, San Diego, CA (US);
Zhigang Rong, San Diego, CA (US);
Lin Ma, San Diego, CA (US);
Fei Frank Zhou, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark W. Cheng, San Diego, CA (US);
Jian Gu, Huangqi Nanhai Guangdong, CN;
Zhu Yuan, Beijing, CN;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
An approach is provided for addressing in a multiple carrier communication system. In one embodiment, a group index is assigned to a group of terminals of a communication network. The group index permits sharing of addressing indices supported by the communication network for transmission of data to the group of terminals. In another embodiment, a plurality of terminals is classified using preamble indices corresponding to the terminals into one or more classes. A multi-user packet, which utilizes the preamble indices to activate only a class of the terminals for processing the multi-user packet, is generated.