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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2010
Applicants:

Anil M. Rao, Wheaton, IL (US);

Robert A. Soni, Randolph, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Anil M. Rao, Wheaton, IL (US);

Robert A. Soni, Randolph, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/0007 (2013.01); H04L 1/0025 (2013.01); H04L 1/0046 (2013.01); H04W 72/1289 (2013.01); H04L 1/0008 (2013.01); H04L 1/0038 (2013.01); H04W 88/181 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a message is sent from the wireless network to a user equipment having a variable rate vocoder. The message defines transport block sizes for the user equipment to select from in making uplink transmissions if the user equipment is permitted to vary a packet size for uplink transmission. A scheduling grant is sent to the user equipment, and the scheduling grant includes an indicator indicating that the user equipment is permitted to vary the packet size for uplink transmissions by selecting a transport block size from among the defined transport block sizes.


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