Patent ID: 6996083

Claim:
A method for communicating over a wireless time division multiplexed communications system in which base stations send communications to and receive communications from mobile stations over downlink and uplink channels, respectively, information communicated over the downlink and uplink channels is contained in frames each divided into data bursts, said method comprising the steps of: acquiring data at the mobile station to be transmitted to the base station where the mobile station has no established uplink channel for transmitting the data to the base station; transmitting from the mobile station over a first uplink channel a request to establish a data communications uplink channel to the base station; said request being transmitted independent of any communications being transmitted over any downlink channel, wherein uplink data communications channels can be established without the mobile station having to previously monitor a downlink channel for instructions associated with transmitting the request to establish the uplink channel; obtaining the assignment of a second uplink channel for transmitting the acquired data; and assigning data bursts that occur periodically every frame to carry the acquired data on the second uplink channel.