Patent ID: 6160823
Filing Date: 2000-12-12
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A transmission system for conveying information generated at a plurality of mobile stations to a nodal station via a base station, comprising:first means at the base station associated with said plurality of mobile stations for multiplexing information generated by said mobile stations into respective bit streams of words, each of said bit streams of words containing all of the information coming from one mobile station, each word in said respective bit streams having a fixed bit length; andsecond means at the base station for time division multiplexing the words in said respective bit streams to produce a fixed link to said nodal station, each of said words having a first data type and a second data type, wherein said first data type has a first data rate and said second data type has a second data rate which is different from said first data rate so that each of said words has at least two data types of different rates.