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Communication terminal accommodation apparatus and scheduling method

  • US 7,660,895 B2
  • Filed: 08/29/2001
  • Issued: 02/09/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communication terminal holding apparatus used in a first network that transmits and receives information with a second network adopting a different channel structure by using a plurality of types of communication frames between which a time period to transmit the information varies, the communication terminal holding apparatus comprising:

  • an information processing section that acquires communication resource information indicating a communication resource in a first communication frame assigned to the first network; and

    a communication resource assigning section that, when a communication request is issued from a terminal apparatus held in the first network, with reference to the communication resource information, assigns an unused communication resource in the first communication frame to the terminal apparatus having sent the communication request, wherein;

    when a communication request is issued between terminal apparatuses held in different networks in the first network, the resource assigning section assigns, to both the terminal apparatus on the transmitting side and the terminal apparatus on the receiving side, the same communication resource that is unused in the network holding the terminal apparatus on the transmitting side and the network holding the terminal apparatus on the receiving side, and, when a communication request is issued from a terminal apparatus held in the first network to a terminal apparatus held in the second network, assigns an unused communication resource to the terminal held in the first network, andthe first network includes a master-slave type network or a network integrating a master-slave type network and a direct link type network, and the second network cannot integrate with the first network.

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