Patent ID: 6122270
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A communications apparatus comprising a first communications system having a time continuous frame structure and a mobile station for communication therewith, wherein the mobile station is able to communicate with a second communication system having a time discontinuous frame structure, the apparatus further including:means in the mobile station for initiating a time compressed mode of operation of the first system in which for a portion of each frame, transmission is disabled;means in the mobile station for accessing, during the disabled periods, the second system;means in the mobile station for specifying to the first system frame structure information of the second system; andmeans in the first system for adjusting the time-compressed mode of operation so that communication with the mobile station occurs during `N` time slots of each frame, the width and position of each slot within each frame being set in order to avoid contention with communications to and from the second system.