Patent ID: RE43107

Claim:
A method of allocating data transmission channels to a mobile station in half-duplex mode in a mobile telecommunications network that uses packet mode and has multiple access by multiplexing transmission channels, comprising: allocating the transmission channels to a mobile station, respectively in a “down” direction from the network to the mobile station, and in an “up” direction from the mobile station to the network; changing an allocation of said transmission channels at each “allocation period”; and receiving a transmission authorization over a transmission channel in the down direction for a given allocation period, said transmission authorization indicating that said transmission channel is allocated in the up direction for the following allocation period; wherein said transmission authorization indicates that said transmission channel, also referred to as the authorization channel, and consecutive transmission channels identifiable from said authorization channel as a function of transmission needs of said network, are allocated in the up direction for the following allocation period, and wherein said function of said transmission needs of said network avoids transmission of said transmission authorization during each of said consecutive transmission channels, and a number of said consecutive transmission channels is greater than zero.