Patent ID: 9648602
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A subscriber unit, comprising: a receiver; a processor of the subscriber unit to receive, via the receiver, a multiple access code having a code epoch repeat duration for a plurality of epochs; the processor of the subscriber unit to further receive, via the receiver, control information corresponding to a first time interval of a first epoch over a shared channel, wherein the control information comprises a code channel indication and a subscriber unit identifier; the processor of the subscriber unit to further receive, via the receiver, traffic channel data corresponding to a second time interval of the first epoch over a traffic channel based on the code channel indication; wherein the code channel indication comprises a list of active channels for the first epoch, and wherein the processor is further to determine the traffic channel for the first epoch from the list of active channels; wherein the subscriber unit is assigned to specific traffic channels via the list of active channels during the first epoch and assigned to specific traffic channels during a subsequent one or more epochs on an epoch-by-epoch basis according to control information for each of the first and subsequent epochs; and wherein the first time interval of the first epoch has at least one time slot prior to the second time interval of the first epoch.