Method and apparatus for compressing and transmitting high speed data

• US 6,385,189 B1
• Filed: 05/09/2000
• Issued: 05/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kurtz, Scott David
• Primary Examiner(s): RAO, SEEMA SRINIVAS
• Application Number:
  US09/567,252
• Time in Patent Office: 728 Days
• Field of Search: 370/345, 370/341, 370/347, 370/329, 370/348, 370/465, 370/337, 370/468, 370/485-487, 370/490, 370/493, 370/496, 370/522, 370/525, 370/526-529, 370/498, 370/477, 370/478, 370/353, 455/557, 455/450, 455/509, 455/452, 358/442, 358/434, 358/435, 358/438, 358/439, 379/93.26, 379/93.08, 379/93.09
• US Class Current: 370/344
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 7/30 Compression speech analysis-synthesis for redundancy reduction G10L19/00; for image communication H04N; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 14/046 Systems or methods for reducing noise or bandwidth
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0041 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0071 Use of interleaving interleaving per se H03M13/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/4927 using levels matched to the quantisation levels of the channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/06 the signals being represented by different frequencies combined with time-division multiplexing H04L5/26
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/04 Scheduled access hybrid access H04W74/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

Two related voiceband compression techniques are employed in order to enable an RF telecommunications system to accommodate data signals of high speed voiceband modems and FAX machines. A High Speed Codec enables the telecommunications system to pass voiceband modem and FAX transmissions at up to 9.6 kb/s. An Ultra-High Speed Codec supports voiceband modem and FAX transmissions up to 14.4 kb/s. The High Speed Codec operates using three 16-phase RF slots or four 8-phase RF slots, and the Ultra-High Speed Codec operates using four 16-phase RF slots. Because these codecs transmit information over several RF slots which can be contiguous, the slots within RF communication channels are dynamically allocated. The Dynamic Timeslot/Bandwidth Allocation feature detects and monitors the data transmission and forms a data channel from the necessary number of slots.

Claims

1. A telecommunications apparatus for receiving a plurality of telephone signals and for transmitting each of the telephone signals on a respective communication channel, wherein each communication channel is formed on at least one transmit radio frequency (RF) carrier, each RF carrier having a plurality of information slots and at least one of the information slots is assigned to one of the telephone signals so that the one of the telephone signals is modulated on the RF carrier;

whereby the telephone signals may include a data signal of a low speed type, a high speed type or an ultra high speed type;

the apparatus comprising;

detector means for receiving and for monitoring each of the telephone signals to detect a data signal in one of the telephone signals and determine the speed type;

encoding means for encoding the data signal to generate a coded signal;

control means for checking an assignment status of ones of the information slots responsive to detection of the data signal and its speed type, and for locating a predetermined number of unassigned sequential information slots for a predetermined bandwidth, the assignment status indicating whether each information slot is unassigned or assigned to a respective one of the telephone signals, the predetermined number being a first number for a low speed type, a second number for a high speed type and a third number for an ultra high speed type;

channel forming means for forming the communication channel from the unassigned sequential information slots; and

means for modulating the coded signal on the communication channel.

2. The telecommunications apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the predetermined number of sequential information slots is one or two information slots for the low speed type, three or four information slots for the high speed type and four information slots for the ultra high speed type.

3. The telecommunications apparatus as recited in claim 2, wherein the predetermined number of sequential information slots is one or two slots for the high speed type and for the ultra high speed type when the predetermined number of unassigned sequential information slots is not located.

4. The telecommunications apparatus as recited in claim 2, wherein each RF carrier includes four information slots, each information slot includes a guard band, and the communication channel is formed with one guard band.

5. In a telecommunications system, a method of receiving a plurality of telephone signals and for transmitting each of the telephone signals on a respective communication channel, wherein each communication channel is formed on at least one transmit radio frequency (RF) carrier, each RF carrier having a plurality of information slots and at least one of the information slots is assigned to one of the telephone signals so that the one of the telephone signals is modulated on the RF carrier whereby the telephone signals may include a data signal of a low speed type, a high speed type or an ultra high speed type;

the method comprising the steps of;

a) receiving and monitoring each of the telephone signals to detect a data signal in one of the telephone signals and determine the speed type of the data signal;

b) encoding the data signal to generate a coded signal;

c) checking an assignment status of ones of the information slots responsive to detection of the data signal, the assignment status indicating whether each carrier and each information slot is unassigned or assigned to another one of the telephone signals;

d) locating a predetermined number of unassigned sequential information slots, the predetermined number being a first number for a low speed type, a second number for a high speed type and a third number for an ultra high speed type;

e) forming the communication channel from the unassigned sequential information slots; and

f) modulating the coded signal on the communication channel.

6. The telecommunications method as recited in claim 5, wherein the predetermined number of sequential slots is one or two information slots for the low speed type, three or four information slots for the high speed type, and four information slots for the ultra high speed type.

7. The telecommunications method as recited in claim 6, wherein the predetermined number of sequential information slots is one or two slots for the high speed type and for the ultra high speed type when the predetermined number of unassigned sequential information slots is not located.

8. The method of dynamic bandwidth allocation as recited in claim 6, wherein each RF carrier includes four information slots, each information slot includes a guard band, and the forming step (f) forms the communication channel with one guard band.