Patent ID: 7006460
Filing Date: 2006-02-28
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting data packets in a communications system in a frame-oriented form between a master station and a plurality of subscribers, comprising: exchanging useful data packets and control data packets between the master station and the subscribers, at least one of the useful data packets and the control data packets being stored in containers within a transmission frame; storing an identifier in an information element within each of the containers within the transmission frame to identify a virtual connection to which at least of one the useful data packets belongs, the identifier indicating the connection to which at least one of the containers for useful data packets transmitted by one of the subscribers to the master station belongs; and stipulating between the master station and the one of the subscribers that the at least one of the containers for useful data packets in the transmission frame is filled with a plurality of control data packets that are transmitted together, wherein at least one of the plurality of control data packets includes information regarding the content of a subsequent container for useful data packets, and wherein the information regarding the content specifies which subsequent containers for useful data packets are filled with control data packets.