Patent ID: 6122516
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
A wireless telecommunications system comprising an interface mechanism for allocating a radio slot for a wireless link between a central terminal and a subscriber terminal within said wireless telecommunications system, one or more frequency channels being provided to support wireless links between the central terminal and the subscriber terminal, and being arranged to provide a plurality of radio slots, the interface mechanism comprising:a radio manager, responsive to an indication that a call is to be established, for issuing an allocation request message to a radio slave within the central terminal requesting that radio slave to allocate a radio slot for the call; anda radio slave, within the central terminal and associated with each frequency channel, for managing the allocation of radio slots within that frequency channel and arranged to be responsive to receipt of the allocation request message from the radio manager, to reference a record identifying available radio slots within the frequency channel in order to select, if available, a radio slot within that frequency channel for allocation to the call, to issue a response message to the radio manager indicating that a radio slot has been selected, and to update its record of available radio slots accordingly.