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Method and arrangement in a road communication network

  • US 6,108,542 A
  • Filed: 01/14/1998
  • Issued: 08/22/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for scheduling operation of a mobile station (MS1) in a radio communication system, the mobile station (MS1) being in standby mode monitoring a first control channel (CC1) on which a first base station (BS1) in a first radio communication network (NET1) in the system continuously transmits messages (703-708), each message comprising at least one word of information bits (40), messages potentially of concern to the mobile station (MS1) being transmitted on the first control channel (CC1) in periodic occurring frames (700), each frame comprising a first sequence of messages (701) in which no message is addressed to a specific mobile station monitoring the first control channel (CC1), the method comprising the steps of for at least a first of the frames:

  • (a) computing (1134) a time period (1307), according to a predetermined formula based on the extent of the first message sequence (701), during which time period (1307) all transmitted words (703-706) belong to messages in the first sequence of messages (701) in the first frame (700);

    (b) performing (1135) a predetermined action, other than receiving radio signals carrying the first control channel (CC1), during the determined time period (1307).

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