Patent ID: 8774105

Claim:
A method of operating a first access terminal, the method comprising: receiving first traffic segment signals in a first traffic segment from an access router; recovering from the first traffic segment signals partitioning information; at least based on the recovered partitioning information, determining a portion of the first traffic segment signals which includes traffic data corresponding to the first access terminal; recovering data rate information from the first traffic segment signals, the data rate information indicating a data rate used for the portion of the first traffic segment signals; transmitting a first transmission request response corresponding to the first traffic segment to said access router; transmitting a second transmission request response to the access router, the second transmission request response corresponding to a second traffic segment; receiving second traffic segment signals, said second traffic segment being a non-partitioned segment; and recovering traffic data corresponding to the first access terminal communicated in the second traffic segment, said second traffic segment being used to communicate information to the first access terminal.