Method and apparatus for data transmission

• US 20110188490A1
• Filed: 01/28/2011
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lantiq Deutschland GMBH (Intel Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lantiq Deutschland GMBH (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Bjarnason, Elias
• Application Number:
  US13/015,753
• Publication Number:
  US 20110188490A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/350
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/0605 Special codes used as synchronising signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/73 Battery saving arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0206 in access points, e.g. base stations access point devices per se H04W88/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0045 compensating for timing error by altering transmission time
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Method and apparatuses are provided for frame-based voice data transmission. In one exemplary embodiment, synchronization information is transmitted in only some of the transmitted frames in an operating mode without payload data transmission.

Claims

1. Method for frame-based data transmission of data including voice data, comprising:

transmission of synchronization information in an operating mode without payload data transmission in only some of the transmitted frames.

2. Method according to claim 1, furthermore comprising:

transmission of the voice data in the data frames, using an operating mode with payload data transmission.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein the synchronization information is transmitted from a base unit to a wireless phone.

4. Method according to claim 1, furthermore comprising:

sampling of reception channels in only some of the frames in the operating mode without payload data transmission.

5. Method according to claim 4,

wherein a plurality of frames are combined to form a multiframe,

wherein the sampling is carried out only in some frames in each n-th multiframe, where n is a positive integer.

6. Method according to claim 5,

wherein the sampling is carried out only in one frame of each multiframe.

7. Method according to claim 1, wherein the data frames are time-division multiplex data frames with a multiplicity of time slots.

8. Method according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of frames are grouped to form a multiframe, wherein the synchronization information is transmitted in the operating mode without payload data transmission only in some frames in each n-th multiframe, where n is a positive integer.

9. Method according to claim 8, wherein the synchronization information is transmitted only in one frame of the multiframe.

10. Method according to claim 1, wherein the data frame is selected from the group consisting of a DECT data frame, a VoIP data frame, and a GSM data frame.

11. Method according to claim 1, furthermore comprising:

transmission of data frames in a further operating mode without payload data transmission, in which synchronization information is transmitted in each of the frames, and

changing to the operating mode without payload data transmission when it is found that a receiver of the synchronization information supports the operating mode without payload data transmission.

12. Method according to claim 1, wherein data is not transmitted in frames which are not within the few frames.

13. Apparatus for transmission of data frames with data including voice data,

having a transmission element for transmission of data frames and a reception element for reception of data frames, wherein the apparatus is designed to transmit synchronization information in only some of the data frames in an operating mode without payload data transmission.

14. Apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the apparatus is designed to sample reception channels only in some of the data frames in the operating mode without payload data transmission.

15. Apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the apparatus is a base unit of a wireless phone.

16. Apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the apparatus is designed to transmit data frames selected from the group consisting of a DECT data frame, a VoIP data frame, and a GSM data frame.

17. Apparatus for frame-based data transmission, having a transmission element for transmission of data frames of data including voice data,

a reception element for reception of the data frames,

wherein the apparatus is designed to maintain synchronization with a further apparatus in an operating mode without payload data transmission on the basis of synchronization information which is received in only some of the frames.

18. Apparatus according to claim 17,

wherein the apparatus is designed to transmit a request to change to an operating mode with payload data transmission only in some predetermined frames in the event of a change to an operating mode with payload data transmission, when in the operating mode without payload data transmission.

19. Apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the apparatus is a wireless phone.

20. Apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the transmission element transmits data frames selected from the group consisting of a DECT data frame, a VoIP data frame, and a GSM data frame.