Patent ID: 6301243
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method of transmitting items of information from a plurality of data sources to a data destination over a common data channel, the method comprising:transmitting the items of information from each data source to the data destination as a series of data packets, each data packet being separated from successive data packets transmitted by the same data source by a repetition period, the repetition period of each data source being different from the repetition periods of the other data sources; andrepeatedly transmitting each item of information from the same data source in at least N adjacent data packets, where N is the number of data sources, in order to ensure that at least one of the N successive data packets is received at the data destination without overlapping with data packets from the other data sources, whereinPeriod n=2*burst period*[(N-1).sup.2 +n]where Period n is the repetition period of the nth data source and burst period is a parameter related to the length of the data packets and n is an interger greater than zero.