TIME-SLICE SIGNALING FOR BROADBAND DIGITAL BROADCASTING

Title:

TIME-SLICE SIGNALING FOR BROADBAND DIGITAL BROADCASTING

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO2003069885

Kind Code:

A3

Abstract:

In a digital broadband broadcasting system (30), in which information is transmitted and received periodically in bursts to reduce receiver power consumption, time-slice information is provided from the transmitter (31) to the receiver (41). The time-slice information can include information from which the receiver can determine when a subsequent transmission burst will be transmitted. The time-slice information can include a burst duration, an amount of time between original bursts, the time between an original burst and a copy of the burst, and numbering of original bursts. This type of time-slice information can be placed into packet headers, such as one or more bytes reserved, but not used, for media access control addressing.

Inventors:

PEKONEN HARRI (FI)

Application Number:

PCT/US2003/000038

Publication Date:

December 11, 2003

Filing Date:

January 22, 2003

Export Citation:

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Assignee:

NOKIA CORP (FI)
NOKIA INC (US)
PEKONEN HARRI (FI)

International Classes:

H04N7/08; H04H20/28; H04H20/72; H04L12/12; H04L12/18; H04L12/56; H04L29/06; H04L29/08; H04N7/081; H04N21/235; H04N21/435; H04J3/06; H04H1/00; (IPC1-7): H04J3/00

Foreign References:

US6477382B1	2002-11-05
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US6175557B1	2001-01-16
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US6339713B1	2002-01-15

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