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Method and apparatus for providing high speed data communications in a cellular environment

  • US 7,949,066 B2
  • Filed: 03/29/2002
  • Issued: 05/24/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing a signal transmitted over the air from an infrastructure element to a remote unit in a wireless communication system, comprising:

  • receiving, at the infrastructure element, information indicative of a quality measure of a wireless channel for communications between the infrastructure element and the remote unit, wherein the information indicative of the quality measure is at least partially based on information received from the remote unit of physical location of the remote unit; and

    determining a transmission rate representing a rate of signal bits transmitted over the air from the infrastructure element to the remote unit and a separate information rate representing a rate of user generated information bits by;

    establishing the information rate by selecting, at the infrastructure element, based on the received information indicative of the quality measure, a channel encoding rate at which to encode the signal for subsequent transmission at the transmission rate at a fixed power level;

    transmitting the signal at the transmission rate at said fixed power level; and

    selectively altering the channel encoding rate at which the infrastructure element encodes the signal upon encountering changes in the information received from the remote unit of physical location of the remote unit.

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