Patent ID: 6957074

Claim:
Apparatus for a radio communication system including a plurality of spaced-apart, fixed-site transceivers positioned throughout a geographic area, each fixed-site transceiver defining a coverage area within which communications with a mobile station are permitted pursuant to a communication session in which communication resources are allocated to effectuate the communication session, said apparatus for facilitating allocation of communication resources by at least one target, fixed-site transceiver, said apparatus comprising: an encoder adapted to receive historical indicia associated with movement of the mobile station, said encoder for encoding the historical indicia into compressed form, encoding performed by said encoder forming a variable-to-fixed encoding scheme; a memory element adapted to receive the historical indicia, once encoded by said encoder; a decoder adapted to access said memory element to retrieve the historical indicia stored thereat, said decoder for decoding the historical indicia and for predicting a subsequent path of movement of the mobile station, the subsequent path formed of a first part and of a second part, the first part based upon the historical indicia and the second part based upon a current location update; and a resource requestor adapted to receive indications of the subsequent path of movement predicted by said mobility path predictor, said resource requestor for selectably requesting reservation of the communication resources at the at least one target, fixed-site transceiver to permit effectuation of the communication session, the at least one target, fixed-site transceiver defining a coverage area containing at least a portion of the subsequent path of movement predicted by said decoder when the subsequent path of movement is of a prediction probability greater than a selected threshold.