Method for efficient utilization of radio resources in wireless communications system
First Claim
1. A wireless communications system, comprising:
- a coordinating communications device, transmitting a predetermined bits sequence at the beginning of a radio frame at a rate of a first fixed interval; and
a source communications device, receiving frames of a streaming session, detecting a duration and first starting time of a frame;
wherein the source communications device forwards information about the duration and the first starting time of one or more of the frames to the coordinating communications device;
wherein the coordinating communications device determines the duration of a second fixed interval and second starting time for transmitting the predetermined bits sequence in accordance with a predetermined rule based on the information received from the source communications device;
wherein the coordinating communications device transmits the predetermined bits sequence at the second starting time of the radio frame at a rate of the second fixed interval and the source communications device forwards the frames to a sink communications device.
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Abstract
The invention provides a wireless communications system. In one embodiment, the wireless communications system comprises a coordinating communications device, a source communications device, and a sink communications device. The coordinating communications device transmits a predetermined bits sequence at the beginning of a radio frame at a rate of a first fixed interval. The source communications device receives frames of a streaming session, detects a duration and first starting time of a frame, and wherein forwards information about the duration and the first starting time of one or more of the frames to the coordinating communications device. The coordinating communications device then determines the duration of a second fixed interval and second starting time in accordance with a predetermined rule based on the information received from the source communications device. The coordinating communications device then transmits the predetermined bits sequence at the second starting time of a radio frame at a rate of the second fixed interval, and the source communications device forwards the frames to a sink communications device.
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22 Claims
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1. A wireless communications system, comprising:
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a coordinating communications device, transmitting a predetermined bits sequence at the beginning of a radio frame at a rate of a first fixed interval; and a source communications device, receiving frames of a streaming session, detecting a duration and first starting time of a frame; wherein the source communications device forwards information about the duration and the first starting time of one or more of the frames to the coordinating communications device; wherein the coordinating communications device determines the duration of a second fixed interval and second starting time for transmitting the predetermined bits sequence in accordance with a predetermined rule based on the information received from the source communications device; wherein the coordinating communications device transmits the predetermined bits sequence at the second starting time of the radio frame at a rate of the second fixed interval and the source communications device forwards the frames to a sink communications device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for efficient utilization of radio resources, wherein a wireless communications system comprises a coordinating communications device, a source communications device, and a sink communications device, and the source communications device receives frames of a streaming session to be forwarded to the sink communications device, comprising:
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transmitting a predetermined bits sequence at the beginning of a radio frame by the coordinating communications device at a rate of a first fixed interval; determining duration of a second fixed interval and a second starting time for transmitting the predetermined bits sequence at the beginning of a radio frame by the coordinating communications device in accordance with a predetermined rule based on information received from the source communications device, wherein the information comprises duration and first starting time of one or more of the frames of the streaming session; and transmitting the predetermined bits sequences by the coordinating communications device at the second starting time of each frame at a rate of the second fixed interval. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for efficient utilization of radio resources, wherein a wireless communications system comprises a coordinating communications device, a source communications device, and a sink communications device, and the coordinating communications device transmits a predetermined bits sequence at the beginning of each of the radio frames at a rate of a first fixed interval, the method comprising:
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receiving by the source communications device frames of a streaming session; detecting by the source communications device a duration and first starting time of the frames; forwarding by the source communications device information about the duration and the first starting time of one or more of the frames of the streaming session to the coordinating communications device; and after the coordinating communications device determines the duration of a second fixed interval and a second starting time for transmitting the predetermined bits sequence at the beginning of a radio frame in accordance with a predetermined rule based on the information received from the source communications device and transmits the predetermined bits sequence at the second starting time of a radio frame at a rate of the second fixed interval, forwarding the frames by the source communications device to the sink communications device in accordance with the radio frames having the duration of the second fixed interval and the second starting time. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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