Patent ID: 8254948

Claim:
An apparatus for a first communication station operable to communicate data in a communication scheme that provides for mobile allocation index offset, said apparatus comprising: a radio protocol stack to which the data is applied; a baseband element, coupled to said radio protocol stack, to provide baseband processing, modulation, and channel coding for the data; a radio element coupled to said baseband element to transduce the data into electromagnetic form; an analyzer that receives a characteristic of the data and analyzes communication resource requirements so that the data can be transmitted in a series of time division multiple access (TDMA) frames and to determine resources needed for dynamic resource allocation; and a resource allocator coupled to said analyzer to receive an indication of selection of a single mobile allocation index offset for each time period of operation within a TDMA frame to allocate resources upon said single mobile allocation index offset as a function of both resource availability and communication-station compatibility, and to cause generation of at least one control message to be provided to said radio protocol stack and said baseband element to control their operation responsive to said resource allocation.