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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2007
Siddarth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sachin R. Vargantwar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, KS (US);
Ashvini Ganesh G. Canjeevaram, Overland Park, KS (US);
Siddarth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sachin R. Vargantwar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, KS (US);
Ashvini Ganesh G. Canjeevaram, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
An improved mechanism for managing allocation of air interface timeslots for transmission of data to access terminals. When an access terminal requests an access network to transmit data to the access terminal in a first sector, the access terminal will identify within its request a second sector that the access network can optionally use instead. The access network will then determine whether a threshold number of upcoming timeslots in the first sector are already scheduled to carry data to other access terminals and whether at least one of those timeslots is available for use in the second sector. If so, the access network will then responsively transmit the data to the access terminal in the at least one timeslot on the second sector. Advantageously, this process can help to increase sector throughput.