Simultaneous transmission of speech and data on a mobile communications system

Abstract

Abstract The invention relates to a method for transmitting speech and data simultaneously on a circuit switched two-way connection of a mobile communications system, which transfers speech and other data by use of discontinuous transmission, DTX, in which the sending is discontinued when it is indicated that there is no information to be sent, and continued when it is indicated that there is information to be sent. In accordance with the method of the invention, the data to be sent are stored in buffer means and wait to be sent. When it is indicated that there is no more information to be sent, the data stored in buffer means are sent until there is no more data to be sent or until it is indicated that there is information, speech or other data to be sent, in which case the sending of data is discontinued and the sending of speech or other data is re-started. So the transfer of data takes place as a background process during transfer of speech or other data. The data are arranged into frame structures while being stored in the buffer. The data are separated, for example, by identifiers placed at the beginning of the frame structures. The same traffic channel can be used for transferring both data and speech or other data. An alternative is to transfer the data on a fast associated control channel that belongs to the same circuit switched connection as the traffic channel.

Inventors

• 👤 Jari HÄMÄLÄINEN
• 👤 Janne Jormalainen

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