Patent ID: 8199661
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of processing supplemental and non supplemental assignments of hop-ports for an access terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving a forward link assignment block (FLAB) according to a shared signaling medium access control (SS MAC) protocol; determining if a medium access control identity (MAC ID) of the FLAB is equal to a MAC ID of an access terminal; clearing an access terminal assignment (ATA) on an interlace and adding hop-ports specified by a channel identity (ChID) in the FLAB to the ATA for the interlace; determining if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD); determining if an extended transmission field of the FLAB is equal to 1; expiring, based upon determining that the extended transmission field of the FLAB is equal to 1, the ATA except for an extended transmission duration assignment ATA which does not overlap in time with a new assignment.