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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2007
Zinping Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Harleen Gill, San Diego, CA (US);
Arul Ananthanarayanan, San Diego, CA (US);
Zinping Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Harleen Gill, San Diego, CA (US);
Arul Ananthanarayanan, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for allocating bandwidth for multicast communications in a wireless communication network. The base station allocates certain bandwidth for handling multicast communications through a multicast communication channel. When a new multicast communication arrives, the base station assigns a predefined number of bandwidth to the multicast communication channel according to a predefined algorithm. A wireless device will monitor all slots in a multicast channel and discard all the packets not belonging to its call.