Patent ID: 6469990
Filing Date: 2002-10-22
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
A method for controlling the reception of data packets in a receiving unit of a mobile station in a mobile radio system, which comprises:providing a mobile station with a receiving unit and a base station; defining data packets including characteristic data packets and data packets to be detected; using the base station to transmit the data packets by transmitting the characteristic data packets at a predetermined time interval before transmitting the data packets to be detected; switching the receiving unit to receive the characteristic data packets during predetermined time frames in which the receiving unit is also switched to receive the data packets to be detected; if the receiving unit has not received one of the characteristic data packets or one of the data packets to be detected during one of the predetermined time frames, switching the receiving unit such that it cannot receive any of the data packets from the base station during one of the remaining predetermined time frames that are assigned to the base station; and defining the remaining predetermined time frames to be time frames during which data packets to be detected cannot occur.