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Transmitting and receiving long messages in a wireless one-way communication system while reserving selected slots for short messages

  • US 5,629,940 A
  • Filed: 04/04/1996
  • Issued: 05/13/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/27/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for communicating long messages in a wireless one-way communication system, comprising:

  • transmitting a time division multiplexed data frame which includes both format packets and data packets positioned in specific temporal locations in said data frame, each format packet containing both an address corresponding to an associated receiver and containing pointers to a plurality of data packets each containing a portion of a given long message targeted for transmission to a given receiver;

    polling the data frame with said given receiver at a first data rate for receiving an initial format packet addressed to said given receiver; and

    reading said plurality of data packets containing the long message at a second data acquisition rate defined by the initial format packet, the data acquisition rate defined according to temporal locations in the data frame of data packets containing portions of said long message.

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