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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2007
Sachin R. Vargantwar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Siddarth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, KS (US);
Ashvini Ganesh Canjeevaram, Burlington, MA (US);
Deveshkumar Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sachin R. Vargantwar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Siddarth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, KS (US);
Ashvini Ganesh Canjeevaram, Burlington, MA (US);
Deveshkumar Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for handing off packet-transmission between sectors of a wireless communication system is disclosed herein. During transmission of a packet from an access network to an access terminal, the access terminal determines that the packet should theoretically be transmitted to the access terminal in fewer timeslots in another sector than the number of allowed timeslots remaining for the packet transmission in a current sector. In response, the access terminal abandons packet transmission in the current sector and hands off to the other sector, in an effort to increase throughput and save air interface resources.