UPLINK RADIO FRAMES APPORTIONED FOR PLURAL MULTIPLE ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES
First Claim
1. A base station of a radio access network comprising:
- a transceiver configured for communicating a frame of information over an air interface with a wireless terminal participating in a connection with the base station;
a frame handler arranged to process differing portions of the frame according to respective differing multiple access technologies.
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Abstract
Frames of information are communicated between a base station (28) of a radio access network (RAN) and plural types of wireless terminals (30). Frame handlers of the base station and of certain types of wireless terminals (30-2) process differing portions of the frame according to respective differing multiple access technologies. In differing embodiments and implementations, modulation techniques of the differing multiple access technologies can be apportioned to differing portions of the frame in various manners, such as (for example) to differing subframes of a multi-sub-framed frame or to differing burst fields or sections of an uplink (UL) burst.
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31 Claims
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1. A base station of a radio access network comprising:
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a transceiver configured for communicating a frame of information over an air interface with a wireless terminal participating in a connection with the base station; a frame handler arranged to process differing portions of the frame according to respective differing multiple access technologies. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A wireless terminal which participates in a connection with a base station of a radio access network, the wireless terminal comprising:
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a transceiver configured for communicating a frame over an air interface with a base station; a frame handler arranged to process differing portions of the frame according to respective differing multiple access technologies. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of operating a radio access network comprising a base station which communicates over a radio interface with plural types of wireless terminals using frames of information, the method comprising:
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transmitting a downlink portion of the frames to a first type of wireless terminal and a second type of wireless terminal; at the first type of wireless terminal, processing the frames according to a first type of multiple access technology; at the second type of wireless terminal, processing the frames according to a second type of multiple access technology. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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