Title:
TIME-MULTIPLEXED SHORT MESSAGE ACKNOWLEDGMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO1998023112
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
Access requests are communicated from a plurality of radiotelephones to a central station over a random access channel carrier frequency band during a first RACH message time window. Short message acknowledgements are communicated from the plurality of radiotelephones to the central station over the random access channel carrier frequency band during a second RACH message time window, in response to short messages communicated from the central station to the plurality of radiotelephones. Preferably, the first RACH message time window includes a first set of TDMA time slots in a group of TDMA control channel multiframes, and the second RACH message time window includes a second set of TDMA time slots in the group of TDMA control channel multiframes, thereby forming a RACH multiframe. Preferably, the first and second RACH message time windows are separated by a guard time. A radiotelephone communications signal representing a short message acknowledgement encoded according to a predetermined short message code, preferably previously communicated to a radiotelephone in a short message from the central station, may be transmitted from the radiotelephone. The radiotelephone communications signal is received at the central station and decoded according to the predetermined short message code to thereby recover a short message acknowledgement. The plurality of radiotelephones may be arranged into paging groups, each having a unique short message code assigned thereto, and a limited number of short message including the unique short message code may be communicated during a given RACH multiframe.
Inventors:
WANG YI-PIN ERIC (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US1997/020256
Publication Date:
September 03, 1998
Filing Date:
November 11, 1997
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ERICSSON GE MOBILE INC (US)
WANG YI PIN ERIC (US)
WANG YI PIN ERIC (US)
International Classes:
H04W74/08; H04W4/14; (IPC1-7): H04Q7/22; H04Q7/38; H04B7/26
Foreign References:
| EP0553952A1 | 1993-08-04 | |||
| EP0633671A2 | 1995-01-11 |
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