Patent ID: 6594233
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method of reducing deleted messages in a transmitter that sends messages organized in frames, superframes, and logical channels, at least one of the channels including structure messages that describe the organization of the frames and logical channels and a number of frames to be read by a receiver, including a number of additional frames that should be read when at least one displaced message exists, the method comprising the steps of:finding messages to be displaced, wherein a message is displaced if it will not be sent in a frame of at least one logical channel and will timeout before it can next be sent; placing found messages to be displaced in a displacement queue, and if a message is placed in the displacement queue, then setting in a message an information element indicating that the number of additional frames is to be read; and assigning messages to a frame according to a predetermined order of logical channels, including any displaced messages that fit in the frame.