Patent ID: 6950401
Filing Date: 2005-09-27
Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for a communication system in which data is communicated with a communication station upon a traffic channel, said apparatus for facilitating selection of resource allocation in the communication system, the resource allocation defined in terms of a first communication indicia and a second communication indicia, said apparatus comprising: a storage device having memory locations for storing a matrix defined in a first dimension by values of the first communication indicia and in a second dimension by the second communication indicia, each element of the matrix of an exemplary threshold value; a comparator coupled to said storage device, said comparator for comparing a traffic-channel threshold value representative of communication upon the traffic channel with at least some of the exemplary threshold values of the matrix stored at the memory location of said storage device and for iteratively comparing the exemplary threshold values contained in the matrix to the traffic channel threshold to locate a selected exemplary threshold value of a selected magnitude relative to the traffic channel threshold; and a selector coupled to said comparator, said selector for selecting the resource allocation responsive to comparisons made by said comparator and location of the selected exemplary threshold value, the resource allocation defined in terms of both the first communication indicia and the second communication indicia that define location of the selected exemplary threshold value in the matrix, with the selected exemplary threshold value.