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Time division multiple access radio systems

  • US 6,967,943 B1
  • Filed: 06/17/1998
  • Issued: 11/22/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of operating a time division multiple access (TDMA) radio system having multi-slot capabilities and utilising half-duplex transmission/reception where uplink and downlink user data transmissions between a mobile station and a base station are made in TDMA frames, wherein TDMA frames for uplink user data transmissions are separate from TDMA frames for downlink user data transmissions, the method comprising allocating a greater number of time slots in each downlink TDMA frame than in each uplink TDMA frame, to said mobile station.

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