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Integrated, self-optimizing, multi-parameter/multi-variable point-to-multipoint communication system [II]

  • US 7,349,426 B2
  • Filed: 04/03/2003
  • Issued: 03/25/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method, includingdetermining a message size responsive to a bit error rate of a communication link, independent of a number of data bits to be sent in a TDMA system;

  • receiving a message having a plurality of data bits, said plurality of data bits being more than can be sent within said message size;

    sending, within a TDMA frame in said TDMA system, a section within said frame including (a) a set of parameters for sending said data bits, and (b) a number of allocated messages of said message size sufficient to send said message;

    fragmenting said message into a initial element and one or more remainder elements responsive to said allocated number of messages, said initial element and said remainder elements can be sent within said message size;

    sending said initial element;

    waiting for an acknowledgment of said initial element;

    (a) upon receiving said acknowledgement, sending one or more of said remainder elements, and (b) upon not receiving said acknowledgement within a selected time, transmitting a portion of said message corresponding to a dynamically determined new said initial element.

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