Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
109 words
A wireless ATM communication system including a base station and at least one remote station for transmitting data packets between the base station and remote station via wireless link comprising: a base station; a remote station; medium access control means for controlling the transmission of data packets between said base station and said remote station via wireless link comprising: framing a channel into T f units subdivided into B m byte slots where downlink transmissions are TDM multiplexed in a single burst from said base station to said remote station and uplink transmissions use a dynamic TDMA methodology for slot allocation from said remote station to said base station.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
36 words
A wireless ATM communication system as set forth in claim 1 where said TDMA slot allocation for available bit-rate data is a one-time allocation of k TDMA slots for each frame, where k is an integer.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
51 words
A system as set forth in claim 1 or 2 where said TDMA slot allocation for continuous bit-rate data is a specific sequence of j slots allocated once every m frames until a disconnect request is received by said base station from said remote station, where j and m are integers.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
37 words
A system as set forth in claim 1, 2 or 3 where said TDMA slot allocation for variable bit-rate data is made on a connection basis and is dependent on usage parameter control values and channel congestion.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
69 words
A system as set forth in any of claims 1 to 4 further comprising a superframe for slot allocation for continuous bit-rate data and variable bit-rate data, where said superframe comprises a plurality of frames identified by a sequence number and where each said frame comprises a frame header, frame setup and global supervisory information, base-to-remote control signal, base-to-remote ACK signal, base-to-remote data, remote-to-base control signal, and remote-to-base data.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
92 words
A wireless ATM communication system including a base station and at least one remote station for transmitting data packets between the base station and the remote station via wireless link comprising: a base station; a remote station; core medium access control means for controlling transmission between said base station and said remote station by maintaining an active virtual channel table and mapping virtual channels to specific control or service slots allocated on a frame-by-frame basis, and supervisory medium access control means for determining table entries in said core medium access control means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
30 words
A wireless ATM communication system as set forth in claim 6, where said supervisory medium access control means in said remote station provides ALOHA access control logic of control messages.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
54 words
A wireless ATM communication system as set forth in claim 6 or 7 where said supervisory medium access control means in said base station allocates and queues resources for time division multiplex downlink transmissions from said base station to said remote station and TDMA uplink transmissions from said remote station to said base station.