Patent ID: 6782269
Filing Date: 2004-08-24
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
In a wireless communications system including a radio access network which transmits data from a base station to a terminal in a wireless downlink and receives data from the terminal to the base station in a wireless uplink, a terminal which is adapted to:receive a first threshold specifying the upper limit on the data rate on said wireless uplink that said terminal may use without a separate rate grant from said base station; send a rate request on the wireless uplink from the terminal to the base station, said rate request requesting that the data rate on said wireless uplink be changed within the limits of a second threshold; and in response to a rate grant received from said base station, said rate grant indicating whether or not said data rate on said wireless uplink may be changed as requested in said rate request, change the data rate on said wireless uplink in accordance with said rate grant.